Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems

Towards Parallelism Extraction for Heterogeneous Multicore Android Devices

Authors:
Aguilar, M. A. ,  Eusse, J. F. ,  Ray, P. ,  Leupers, R.Ascheid, G. ,  Sheng, W. ,  Sharma, P.
Journal:
International Journal of Parallel Programming
Volume:
45
Publisher:
Springer
Page(s):
1592-1624
number:
6
Date:
Dec. 2017
ISSN:
1573-7640
DOI:
10.1007/s10766-016-0479-5
hsb:
RWTH-2017-00636
Language:
English
Abstract:
Modern Android mobile devices are enabled by complex heterogeneous MPSoC platforms. To exploit the full potential of these hardware platforms, computationally intensive parts of applications have to be properly parallelized. However, the current practice involves several manual steps, which is a cumbersome task for programmers. In this paper, we present an automated approach to extract multiple forms of parallelism from native C code within Android applications, targeting heterogeneous multicore devices. We show the effectiveness of our approach by parallelizing a set of benchmarks on a Nexus 7 tablet, which is based on a Snapdragon MPSoC that features a quad-core Krait CPU cluster and an Adreno 320 GPU.
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