Performance impact of dynamic parallelism on different clustering algorithms

Jeffrey DiMarco; Michela Taufer

doi:10.1117/12.2018069

29 May 2013 Performance impact of dynamic parallelism on different clustering algorithms

Jeffrey DiMarco, Michela Taufer

Proceedings Volume 8752, Modeling and Simulation for Defense Systems and Applications VIII; 87520E (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2018069
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we aim to quantify the performance gains of dynamic parallelism. The newest version of CUDA, CUDA 5, introduces dynamic parallelism, which allows GPU threads to create new threads, without CPU intervention, and adapt to its data. This effectively eliminates the superfluous back and forth communication between the GPU and CPU through nested kernel computations. The change in performance will be measured using two well-known clustering algorithms that exhibit data dependencies: the K-means clustering and the hierarchical clustering. K-means has a sequential data dependence wherein iterations occur in a linear fashion, while the hierarchical clustering has a tree-like dependence that produces split tasks. Analyzing the performance of these data-dependent algorithms gives us a better understanding of the benefits or potential drawbacks of CUDA 5’s new dynamic parallelism feature.

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Jeffrey DiMarco and Michela Taufer "Performance impact of dynamic parallelism on different clustering algorithms", Proc. SPIE 8752, Modeling and Simulation for Defense Systems and Applications VIII, 87520E (29 May 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2018069

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