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Heterogeneous Computing in ARM Architecture Media Processing Division ARM June 25th 2013 Agenda Trends in Heterogeneous Computing GPU Computing with ARM® Mali™-T600 series as example Heterogeneous System Architecture™ (HSA) is the future 2 ARM and HSA 3 Trends in the Industry Heterogeneous multiprocessing Established approach for SoC design Mix of many specialized accelerators, implementing different ISAs Diverse programming approaches lead to lack of portability Parallel computation for performance and efficiency Endorsed at all levels of computer architecture Parallel programming traditionally difficult General purpose programmability of GPUs Massive parallel computation potential Increasing programmability 4 What is Parallel Computing? Simply, doing multiple tasks simultaneously Task-Parallel computing does different tasks concurrently Reading email, playing music, and surfing the web are all separate tasks In a multicore system, these can execute simultaneously Data-Parallel computing does the same operation on a collection of data concurrently Adjusting the contrast of the pixels of an image Each thread executes the same code but with different data Classic SIMD (single-instruction, multiple-data) GPU computing is perfect for data-parallel applications 5 What is Heterogeneous Computing? GPU used as computational accelerators or companion processors CPU GPU Mass