General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units in Service-Oriented Architectures

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• Publication Type: Conference Paper
• Workgroup(s)/Project(s):
  • Rendering and Modeling
• Date: December 2013
• ISBN: 978-1-4799-2701-2
• Series: SOCA
• Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
• Organization: IEEE Computer Society
• Location: Kauai
• Lecturer:
  • María del Carmen Calatrava Moreno
  • Thomas Auzinger
• Booktitle: Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications
• Conference date: 16. December 2013 – 18. December 2013
• Keywords: GPGPU, SOA, parallel, graphics processors, GPU, service-oriented architectures, throughput computing, survey, future

Abstract

Over the last decades, graphics processing units have developed from special-purpose graphics accelerators to general-purpose massively parallel co-processors. In recent years they gained increased traction in high performance computing as they provide superior computational performance in terms of runtime and energy consumption for a wide range of problems. In this survey, we review their employment in distributed computing for a broad range of application scenarios. Common characteristics and a classification of the most relevant use cases are described. Furthermore, we discuss possible future developments of the use of general purpose graphics processing units in the area of service-oriented architecture. The aim of this work is to inspire future research in this field and to give guidelines on when and how to incorporate this new hardware technology.

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@inproceedings{Calatrava_2013_GPGPUSOA,
  title =      "General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units in
               Service-Oriented Architectures",
  author =     "Mar\'{i}a del Carmen Calatrava Moreno and Thomas Auzinger",
  year =       "2013",
  abstract =   "Over the last decades, graphics processing units have
               developed from special-purpose graphics accelerators to
               general-purpose massively parallel co-processors. In recent
               years they gained increased traction in high performance
               computing as they provide superior computational performance
               in terms of runtime and energy consumption for a wide range
               of problems. In this survey, we review their employment in
               distributed computing for a broad range of application
               scenarios. Common characteristics and a classification of
               the most relevant use cases are described. Furthermore, we
               discuss possible future developments of the use of general
               purpose graphics processing units in the area of
               service-oriented architecture. The aim of this work is to
               inspire future research in this field and to give guidelines
               on when and how to incorporate this new hardware technology.",
  month =      dec,
  isbn =       "978-1-4799-2701-2",
  series =     "SOCA ",
  publisher =  "IEEE Computer Society",
  organization = "IEEE Computer Society",
  location =   "Kauai",
  booktitle =  "Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on
               Service Oriented Computing and Applications",
  keywords =   "GPGPU, SOA, parallel, graphics processors, GPU,
               service-oriented architectures, throughput computing,
               survey, future",
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2013/Calatrava_2013_GPGPUSOA/",
}