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HSA (HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE) FROM A SOFTWARE PERSPECTIVE OCT 2013 GARY FROST AMD SOFTWARE FELLOW HSA FOUNDATION  Founded in June 2012  Developing a new platform for heterogeneous systems   Specifications under development in working groups  Our first specification, HSA Programmers Reference Manual is already published and available on our web site  Additional specifications for System Architecture, Runtime Software and Tools are in process © Copyright 2013 HSA Foundation. All Rights Reserved. 2 HSA FOUNDATION MEMBERSHIP — AUGUST 2013 Founders Promoters Supporters Contributors Academic Associates © Copyright 2013 HSA Foundation. All Rights Reserved. 3 SOCS HAVE PROLIFERATED — MAKE THEM BETTER  SOCs have arrived and are a tremendous advance over previous platforms  SOCs combine CPU cores, GPU cores and other accelerators, with high bandwidth access to memory  How can we make them even better?  Easier to program  Easier to optimize  Higher performance  Lower power  HSA unites accelerators architecturally  Early focus on the GPU compute accelerator, but HSA goes well beyond the GPU © Copyright 2013 HSA Foundation. All Rights Reserved. 4 INFLECTIONS IN PROCESSOR DESIGN Heterogeneous Single-Core Era Multi-Core Era Systems Era Enabled by: Constrained by: Enabled by: Constrained by: Enabled by: Temporarily  Moore‘s Power