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An efficient GPU-based parallel tabu search algorithm for hardware/software co-design

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Hardware/software partitioning is an essential step in hardware/software co-design. For large size problems, it is difficult to consider both solution quality and time. This paper presents an efficient GPU-based parallel tabu search algorithm (GPTS) for HW/SW partitioning. A single GPU kernel of compacting neighborhood is proposed to reduce the amount of GPU global memory accesses theoretically. A kernel fusion strategy is further proposed to reduce the amount of GPU global memory accesses of GPTS. To further minimize the transfer overhead of GPTS between CPU and GPU, an optimized transfer strategy for GPU-based tabu evaluation is proposed, which considers that all the candidates do not satisfy the given constraint. Experiments show that GPTS outperforms state-of-the-art work of tabu search and is competitive with other methods for HW/SW partitioning. The proposed parallelization is significant when considering the ordinary GPU platform.

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This paper was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61472289), National Key Research and Development Project (2016YFC0106305). We also would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable and constructive comments.

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    Neng Hou, Fazhi He & Yilin Chen

  2. School of Computer Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, 434023, China

    Neng Hou

  3. School of Information Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, China

    Yi Zhou

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Neng Hou received PhD degree from Wuhan University, China in 2018. He is currently a lecture at School of Computer Science in Yangtze University, China. His research interests include HW/SW Co-design and GPU computing.

Fazhi He is currently a professor at School of Computer Science in Wuhan University, China. His research interests include computer-aided design, computer graphics, image processing, intelligent computing.

Yi Zhou is currently a lecture at School of Information Science and Engineering in Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China. His research interests include multi-core CPU and Many-core GPU based metaheuristics.

Yilin Chen is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Computer Science in Wuhan University, China. His research interests include GPGPU in computer graphics.

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Hou, N., He, F., Zhou, Y. et al. An efficient GPU-based parallel tabu search algorithm for hardware/software co-design. Front. Comput. Sci. 14, 145316 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-019-8184-3

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