HosNa: A DPC++ Benchmark Suite for Heterogeneous Architectures

Abstract

Most data centers equipped their general-purpose processors with hardware accelerators to reduce power consumption and improve utilization. Hardware accelerators offer highly energy-efficient computation for a wide range of applications; however, their programming is not as efficient as processors. To bridge the gap, Intel developed a cloud-based infrastructure called DevCloud that connects Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors to GPUs and FPGAs to deliver high compute performance for emerging workloads. DevCloud assists developers with their compute-intensive tasks and provides access to precompiled software optimized for Intel® architecture. To reduce programming complexity and minimize the barriers to adopt new innovative hardware technology, Intel also provided a unified, cross-architecture programming model called oneAPI based on the Data-Parallel C++ (DPC++) language. In this paper, we introduce HosNa, the first DPC++ benchmark suite that can be used for the evaluation of the Intel FPGAs and DPC++ productivity. Moreover, we present the characterization of proposed benchmarks and the evaluation of implemented hardware accelerators in terms of speedup and latency.