GPU Performance Prediction using Representation Learning

Citation

Aswin Raghavan, Mohamed Amer, Timothy Shields, David Zhang, Sek Chai; Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning, New York, NY, USA, 2016. JMLR: W&CP volume 48. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1703.09146

Abstract

GPU activity prediction is an important and complex problem. This is due to the high level of contention among thousands of parallel threads. This problem was mostly addressed using heuristics. We propose a representation learning approach to address this problem. We model any performance metric as a temporal function of the executed instructions with the intuition that the flow of instructions can be identified as distinct activities of the code. Our experiments show high accuracy and non-trivial predictive power of representation learning on a benchmark.


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