PLDI 2024
Mon 24 - Fri 28 June 2024 Copenhagen, Denmark
Mon 24 Jun 2024 17:00 - 17:15 at Iceland - Analysis and Testing Chair(s): Jason Xue

Modern hardware accelerators, such as FPGAs, can be used to offload large regions of C/C++ code in order to improve the execution time and/or the energy consumption of software applications. An outstanding challenge with this approach, however, is solving the Hardware/Software (Hw/Sw) partitioning problem. Given the increasing complexity of both the accelerators and the potential code regions, one needs to adopt a holistic approach when selecting a offloading region by exploring the interplay between communication costs, data usage patterns, and target-specific optimizations. To this end, we propose representing a C application as an extended task graph (ETG) with flexible granularity, which can be manipulated through the merging and splitting of tasks. This approach involves generating a task graph overlay on the program’s Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) that maps tasks to functions and the flexible granularity operations onto inlining/outlining operations. This maintains the integrity and readability of the original source code, which is paramount for targeting different accelerators and enabling code optimizations, while allowing the offloading of code regions of arbitrary complexity based on the data patterns of their tasks. To evaluate the ETG representation and its compiler, we use the latter to generate ETGs for the programs in Rosetta and MachSuite benchmark suites, and extract several metrics regarding data communication, task-level parallelism, and dataflow patterns between pairs of tasks. These metrics provide important information that can be used by Hw/Sw partitioning methods.

Mon 24 Jun

Displayed time zone: Windhoek change

16:00 - 17:40
Analysis and TestingLCTES at Iceland
Chair(s): Jason Xue MBZUAI
16:00
15m
Talk
EVMBT: A Binary Translation Scheme for Upgrading EVM Smart Contracts to WASM
LCTES
Weimin Chen The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Xiapu Luo The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Heming Cui University of Hong Kong, Shuyu Zheng Peking University, Xuanzhe Liu Peking University
16:15
15m
Talk
CodeExtract: Enhancing Binary Code Similarity Detection with Code Extraction Techniques
LCTES
Lichen Jia Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chenggang Wu Institute of Computing Technology at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Zhongguancun Laboratory, Zhe Wang Institute of Computing Technology at Chinese Academy of Sciences; Zhongguancun Laboratory, Peihua Zhang
16:30
15m
Talk
Foundations for a Rust-Like Borrow Checker for C
LCTES
Tiago Silva University of Porto, João Bispo Faculdade de Engenharia e Universidade do Porto, Tiago Carvalho University of Porto
16:45
15m
Talk
Enhancing Code Vulnerability Detection via Vulnerability-Preserving Data Augmentation
LCTES
Shangqing Liu Nanyang Technological University, Wei Ma Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Jian Wang Nanyang Technological University, Xiaofei Xie Singapore Management University, Ruitao Feng SMU, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University
17:00
15m
Talk
(WIP) A Flexible-Granularity Task Graph Representation and its Generation from C Applications
LCTES
Tiago Santos Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, João Bispo Faculdade de Engenharia e Universidade do Porto, João M. P. Cardoso University of Porto and INESC TEC, Portugal
17:15
25m
Day closing
Award and Closing
LCTES