JExplore: Design Space Exploration Tool for Nvidia Jetson Boards

TL;DR

JExplore is a versatile design space exploration tool for Nvidia Jetson boards that facilitates efficient search and benchmarking of hardware and software configurations to optimize AI workloads.

Contribution

It introduces a flexible, integrated platform for exploring and benchmarking Nvidia Jetson configurations, supporting various search algorithms and accelerating optimization processes.

Findings

Enables efficient exploration of hardware/software configurations.

Supports integration with any search algorithm.

Accelerates configuration optimization for AI workloads.

Abstract

Nvidia Jetson boards are powerful systems for executing artificial intelligence workloads in edge and mobile environments due to their effective GPU hardware and widely supported software stack. In addition to these benefits, Nvidia Jetson boards provide large configurability by giving the user the choice to modify many hardware parameters. This large space of configurability creates the need of searching the optimal configurations based on the user's requirements. In this work, we propose JExplore, a multi-board software and hardware design space exploration tool. JExplore can be integrated with any search tool, hence creating a common benchmarking ground for the search algorithms. Moreover, it accelerates the exploration of user application and Nvidia Jetson configurations for researchers and engineers by encapsulating host-client communication, configuration management, and metric measurement.