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Directed Speculation in Multi-core Memory Systems to Improve Performance and Efficiency
Speaker: Professor Paul Gratz
Texas A&M University
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
11am- 12pm, VSE Room 1602
Abstract
The scaling of multi-core processors poses a challenge to memory system design. While process
technology scaling provides greater numbers of cores on each chip, the transistor performance and
power gains that traditionally accompanied process scaling have largely ceased. Scaling
performance with increased core counts must be achieved under the same or reduced energy and
power budgets. Furthermore, increased cores generate more accesses to shared caches causing
conflict misses as unrelated processes compete for the same cache sets. Each miss represents
significant waste: wasted time as the requested data is transferred from a slow main memory,
wasted energy and bandwidth when transferring cache block words that will ultimately go unused.
In this talk I will explore the means to leverage memory reference speculation to reduce waste and
improve efficiency in multi-core processor memory systems. In particular, I will show how
control flow and effective address speculation can be used in a novel, highly accurate, prefetch
engine that improves IPC by 31% versus baseline for multiprogrammed workloads, outperforming
the best competing design of class with 65% less hardware state overhead. I will also demonstrate
a technique to speculate on word usage within processor cache lines to eliminate 36% of the
dynamic energy in the multi-core processor interconnect with no performance impact. Finally, I
will discuss some on-going work in path-speculation based prefetching for the last-level cache.
Biography
Paul V. Gratz is an Associate Professor in the department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research interests
include energy efficient and reliable design in the context of high
performance computer architecture, processor memory systems and onchip
interconnection networks. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from The University of Florida in 1994 and 1997
respectively. From 1997 to 2002 he was a design engineer with Intel
Corporation. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. His papers "A
Control-Theoretic Approach for Energy Efficient CPU-GPU Subsystem in
Mobile Platforms" and "B-Fetch: Branch Prediction Directed Prefetching for Chip-Multiprocessors"
were nominated for best papers at DAC '15 and MICRO '14 respectively. At ASPLOS '09, Dr. Gratz
received a best paper award for "An Evaluation of the TRIPS Computer System." In Spring 2010, he
received the "Teaching Excellence Award - Top 5%" award from the Texas A&M University System
for a graduate-level computer architecture course he developed.
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Houman Homayoun
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science (Courtesy Appointment)
George Mason University
Engineering Building, 3223
(949) 943-9639 (cell)
(703) 993-5430 (office)
URL: http://ece.gmu.edu/~hhomayou/
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