The convergence of HPC and embedded systems in our heterogeneous computing future

Abstract

Recently we have seen two exciting trends that have been flooding the market: 1) the movement of graphics processing units into mainstream general-purpose platforms, and 2) the movement of multi-core embedded systems into tablet computing and smartphone spaces. These trends are forcing application developers to rethink how they are going to best utilize these many-core and multi-core heterogeneous platforms to provide new levels of cost/performance/power in a range of emerging application domains.