Efficient Execution of SkePU Skeleton Programs on the Low-Power Multicore Processor Myriad2

SkePU is a state-of-the-art skeleton programming library for high-level portable programming and efficient execution on heterogeneous parallel computer systems, with a publically available implementation for general-purpose multicore CPU and multi-GPU systems. This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a new back-end of the SkePU skeleton programming library for the new low-power multicore processor Myriad2 by Movidius Ltd. This enables seamless code portability of SkePU applications across both HPC and embedded (Myriad2) parallel computing systems, with decent performance, on these architecturally very diverse types of execution platforms.