Future applications demand more performance, but technology advances have been faltering. A promising approach to further improve computer system performance under energy constraints is to employ hardware accelerators. Already today, mobile systems concurrently employ multiple accelerators in what we call accelerator-level parallelism (ALP). To spread the benefits of ALP more broadly, we charge computer scientists to develop the science needed to best achieve the performance and cost goals of ALP hardware and software.
翻译:未来应用要求更高的性能,但技术进步却一直停滞不前。 在能源限制下进一步改进计算机系统性能的一个有希望的方法是使用硬件加速器。 如今,移动系统已经同时使用多种加速器,我们称之为加速级平行(ALP ) 。 为了更广泛地传播ALP的好处,我们要求计算机科学家开发必要的科学,以最佳地实现ALP硬件和软件的性能和成本目标。