一种支持多种访存技术的CBEA片上多核MPI并行编程模型

现有的CBEA(Cell Broadband Engine Architecture)编程模型多侧重于支持类似于流处理的"批量访存"(Bulk Data Transfer)应用,传统非规则访存应用性能较低.文中基于Cell架构提出了一种同时支持"批量访存"与非规则访存应用的MPI并行编程模型,将通信分解在PPE(PowerPC Processing Element)上,拓宽模型的适用范围;在统一访存接口下,通过运行时访存剖分信息指导选择和优化访存以提高计算效率.实验结果表明,文中提出的编程模型支持多种访存模式并具有很好的并行加速比,可获得较同类相关技术30%~50%左右的性能提升.     

基于Cell多核处理器的层次化运行时支持技术

基于Cell处理器的异构多核架构及软件显式管理的多级存储层次,使其面临编程困难和性能难以有效发挥等问题.现有基于Cell/B.E.的编程模型多侧重于支持类似于流处理的批量访存(bulk data transfer)应用,传统非规则访存应用性能较低.通过扩展Cell/B.E.访存库增强协处理单元的自主作用,以协处理单元为中心建立Cell计算平台上的MPI和弱一致性Pthread分层并行编程运行时支持.分层的运行时支持结构及扩展后的Cell/B.E.访存库使模型具有更好的效率和可扩展性,并且提高了非规则应用的性能;模型中的MPI方便了大量传统并行应用向新架构的移植及开发,而弱一致性Pthread则为MPI提供高效的任务运行时管理支持及为系统级用户提供对架构全面控制的编程接口.实验结果表明,提出的运行时支持技术不仅可适应不同应用的要求,同时借助访存库中的剖分优化机制可有效地挖掘Cell/B.E.架构性能.     

面向异构众核从核的数学函数库访存优化方法

数学库函数算法的特性致使函数存在大量的访存,而当前异构众核的从核结构采用共享主存的方式实现数据访问,从而严重影响了从核的访存速度,因此异构众核结构中数学库函数的性能无法满足高性能计算的要求。为了有效解决此问题,提出了一种基于访存指令的调度策略,亦即将访存延迟有效地隐藏于计算延迟中,以提高基于汇编实现的数学函数库的函数性能;结合动态调用方式,利用从核本地局部数据存储空间LDM(local data memory),提出了一种提高访存速度的ldm_call算法。两种优化技术在共享存储结构下具有普遍适用性,并能够有效减少函数访存开销,提高访存速度。实验表明,两种技术分别能够平均提高函数性能16.08%和37.32%。     

存算解耦合的粗粒度可重构阵列访存结构设计

粗粒度可重构阵列架构兼具灵活性和高效性,但高计算吞吐量的特性也会给访存带来压力.在片下动态存储器带宽相对固定的情况下,设计一种存算解耦合的访存结构.将控制逻辑集成在轻量级的存储空间中,通过可配置的存储空间隔离访存和计算的循环迭代,从而掩盖内存延时,同时利用该结构进行串联和对齐操作,以适配不同的计算访存频率比并优化间接访...     

cache profiling信息指导的软件流水

软件流水是一种重要的指令调度技术,它通过同时执行来自不同循环迭代的指令来加快循环的执行时间.随着处理器速度和访存速度差距越拉越大,访存指令尤其是cache miss的访存指令日益成为系统性能提高的瓶颈.由于这些指令的延迟不是固定的,如何在软件流水中预测并掩盖这些访存指令的延迟是非常重要的.与前人预测访存延迟的方法不同,引入cache profiling技术,通过动态收集到profile信息来预测访存延迟,并进行适当的调度.当增加模调度循环中的访存指令的延迟时,启动间隔也会随之增大,导致性能不会随之上升.CSMS算法和FLMS算法在尽量不增大启动间隔的情况下,改变访存指令的延迟.改进了CSMS算法和FLMS算法,根据cache profiling的信息来改变访存延迟,所以比前人的方法更为准确.实验表明,新方法可以有效地提高程序性能,对SPEC2000测试程序平均性能提高1%左右,个别例子的性能改进高达11%.     

基于ARMv8处理器的高性能图像处理算法实现与优化研究

色彩空间转换、图像缩放、图像滤波都是图像处理领域常见的算法,广泛应用于数字媒体、数据通信、生物医学和航空航天等领域。目前上述算法在ARM处理器上虽有开源的OpenCV库,但缺少与Intel IPP库精度相当的高性能图像处理库。为此,根据算法的计算访存特征,将上述算法分为数据无关算法、数据共享算法及非规则访存算法3类,提出了不同类别算法在ARMv8计算平台上的优化方法体系,最终构建了一个基于ARMv8计算平台的高性能图像处理算法库,精度上对标Intel IPP库,并通过算法优化、访存优化、SIMD优化及汇编指令优化等一系列优化方法的应用,大幅提升了图像处理算法的性能。实验结果表明,在华为鲲鹏920计算平台上,重点优化的CvtColor、Filter和Resize模块性能较OpenCV算法库都有显著提升。     

一种加速访存地址计算的编译优化

在国产申威高性能多核服务器系统中,基础编译系统对应用程序中访存操作进行代码生成时,没有考虑国产处理器指令特征,导致编译器生成的访存地址计算代码效率较低,影响国产高性能处理器的性能。为充分发挥国产处理器高性能计算能力,提出一种加速访存地址计算的编译优化方法。加速访存地址计算编译优化基于处理器支持带扩展因子的运算指令,在编译器后端内存地址表达式合法性检查中,添加针对乘加模式的地址计算表达式合法性检查算法,自动识别地址表达式中存在的乘加运算并进行合法性检验,对符合条件的地址表达式在代码生成阶段匹配生成带扩展因子的运算指令来快速计算访存地址,从而加快访存指令的发射与执行以及应用程序中的访存地址生成,提升访存效率。使用行业标准性能测试集SPEC CPU2006对优化效果进行评测,结果表明,相比优化前SPECspeed Integer与SPECspeed Float Point两个子集,该优化方法平均性能分别提高了2.53%与1.50%。     

面向实时流处理的多核多线程处理器访存队列

针对多核多线程处理器中乱序访存影响计算实时性的问题,在对典型访存队列进行研究的基础上提出了一种新的访存队列构建模型及其硬件结构.该模型采用窗口优化算法控制最差情况下的访存延迟,保证访存的实时性,同时又利用优化的乱序调度策略减少访存延迟.实验证明,该访存队列可控制最大访存延迟,与顺序访存相比,存储器具备更高的带宽,与传统的乱序访存相比较,可以充分满足计算的实时性需求,而存储器有效带宽基本不受影响,解决了多核多线程处理器承担实时流计算的基础难题.     

一种用于通用处理器结构优化的矩阵乘法性能模型

矩阵乘法作为高性能计算中的关键组成部分,是一种具有计算和访存密集特点的典型应用,因此优化矩阵乘法的性能对通用处理器是非常重要的.为了提高矩阵乘法的性能,本文提出了一种性能模型,用于预测通用处理器上矩阵乘法的执行时间.该模型反映了矩阵乘法执行时间与通用处理器的运算部件、访存带宽、寄存器个数等结构参数之间的关系,可以指导处理器结构的优化来平衡计算和访存能力、提高执行速度.基于该模型本文给出了在一个优化的通用处理器结构中,寄存器个数和访存带宽应满足的理论下界.本文在Godson-3B处理器平台上对该性能模型进行了验证,实验结果表明矩阵乘法执行时间的预测精确度达到95％以上.基于该模型,本文还提出了一种对Godson-3B结构进行优化的方法,使矩阵乘法的执行时间减少了50％左右.     

面向异构多核系统芯片的高效动态带宽划分方法

针对异构MPSoC中各主设备频繁争抢有限访存带宽、请求相互干扰、严重影响系统性能的问题,提出一种基于限流的动态DRAM带宽分配机制——TDBA.首先实时监测主设备访存特性,通过访存干扰程度评估将主设备分组;然后对造成严重干扰的主设备设置带宽限流阈值来防止其过度争抢带宽,并根据系统带宽使用情况动态调整该阈值,同时优先计算密集主设备的请求以进一步提高系统性能.将TDBA应用于真实异构MPSoC系统的实验结果表明,TDBA可以有效地降低访存干扰,明显提高系统性能.     

A new software cache structure on Sunway TaihuLight

The Sunway TaihuLight is the first supercomputer built entirely with domestic processors in China. On Sunway Taihulight, the local data memory (LDM) of the slave core is limited, so data transmission with the main memory is frequent during calculation, and the memory access efficiency is low. On the other hand, for many scientific computing programs, how to solve the storage problem of irregular access data is the key to program optimization. Software cache (SWC) is one of the effective means to solve these problems. Based on the characteristics of Sunway TaihuLight structure and irregular access, this paper designs and implements a new software cache structure by using part of the space in LDM to simulate the cache function, which uses new cache address mapping and conflicts solution to solve high data access overhead and storage overhead in a traditional cache. At the same time, the SWC uses the register communication between the slave cores to share on the different slave core LDMs, increasing the capacity of the software cache and improving the hit rate. In addition, we adopt a double buffer strategy to access regular data in batches, which hides the communication overhead between the slave core and the main memory. The test results on the Sunway TaihuLight platform show that the software cache structure in this paper can effectively reduce the program running time, improve the software cache hit rate, and achieve a better optimization effect.

     

Data cache organization for accurate timing analysis

Caches are essential to bridge the gap between the high latency main memory and the fast processor pipeline. Standard processor architectures implement two first-level caches to avoid a structural hazard in the pipeline: an instruction cache and a data cache. For tight worst-case execution times it is important to classify memory accesses as either cache hit or cache miss. The addresses of instruction fetches are known statically and static cache hit/miss classification is possible for the instruction cache. The access to data that is cached in the data cache is harder to predict statically. Several different data areas, such as stack, global data, and heap allocated data, share the same cache. Some addresses are known statically, other addresses are only known at runtime. With a standard cache organization all those different data areas must be considered by worst-case execution time analysis. In this paper we propose to split the data cache for the different data areas. Data cache analysis can be performed individually for the different areas. Access to an unknown address in the heap does not destroy the abstract cache state for other data areas. Furthermore, we propose to use a small, highly associative cache for the heap area. We designed and implemented a static analysis for this cache, and integrated it into a worst-case execution time analysis tool.     

面向稀疏矩阵访存特性的Cache划分

稀疏矩阵向量乘是许多科学计算的核心,计算中大量的间接和随机访存成为计算的主要瓶颈。本文通过分析稀疏矩阵向量乘运算的数据结构和计算过程,得到计算中不同数据的访存特征,并提出了一种面向数据访存特性的Cache划分方法。对12个稀疏矩阵向量乘的测试表明,本文的Cache划分方法能有效地提高可重用向量的Cache命中率,同时减少计算对Cache空间的需求。     

Memory bandwidth optimization of SpMV on GPGPUs

It is an important task to improve performance for sparse matrix vector multiplication (SpMV), and it is a difficult task because of its irregular memory access. General purpose GPU (GPGPU) provides high computing ability and substantial bandwidth that cannot be fully exploited by SpMV due to its irregularity. In this paper, we propose two novel methods to optimize the memory bandwidth for SpMV on GPGPU. First, a new storage format is proposed to exploit memory bandwidth of GPU architecture more efficiently. The new storage format can ensure that there are as many non-zeros as possible in the format which is suitable to exploit the memory bandwidth of the GPU. Second, we propose a cache blocking method to improve the performance of SpMV on GPU architecture. The sparse matrix is partitioned into sub-blocks that are stored in CSR format. With the blocking method, the corresponding part of vector x can be reused in the GPU cache, so the time to access the global memory for vector x is reduced heavily. Experiments are carried out on three GPU platforms, GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce GTX 480, and Tesla K40. Experimental results show that both new methods can efficiently improve the utilization of GPU memory bandwidth and the performance of the GPU.     

Architecting high-performance energy-efficient soft error resilient cache under 3D integration technology

Radiation-induced soft error has become an emerging reliability threat to high performance microprocessor design. As the size of on chip cache memory steadily increased for the past decades, resilient techniques against soft errors in cache are becoming increasingly important for processor reliability. However, conventional soft error resilient techniques have significantly increased the access latency and energy consumption in cache memory, thereby resulting in undesirable performance and energy efficiency degradation. The emerging 3D integration technology provides an attractive advantage, as the 3D microarchitecture exhibits heterogeneous soft error resilient characteristics due to the shielding effect of die stacking. Moreover, the 3D shielding effect can offer several inner dies that are inherently invulnerable to soft error, as they are implicitly protected by the outer dies. To exploit the invulnerability benefit, we propose a soft error resilient 3D cache architecture, in which data blocks on the soft error invulnerable dies have no protection against soft error, therefore, access to the data block on the soft error invulnerable die incurs a considerably reduced access latency and energy. Furthermore, we propose to maximize the access on the soft error invulnerable dies by dynamically moving data blocks among different dies, thereby achieving further performance and energy efficiency improvement. Simulation results show that the proposed 3D cache architecture can reduce the power consumption by up to 65% for the L1 instruction cache, 60% for the L1 data cache and 20% for the L2 cache, respectively. In general, the overall IPC performance can be improved by 5% on average.     

Composition-based Cache simulation for structure reorganization

Finding the best data layout has been an ultimate goal of memory optimization. Even with data access profile, heuristic algorithms are needed to reorganize data layout for better locality. The best layout could be found by running the given application with all possible data layouts and selecting the best performing layout. This approach, however, can incur too much overhead, particulary when the number of possible layouts are too many. In this paper, we present a composition-based cache simulation for structure reorganization. Instead of running all possible layouts, we simulate only the primary subsets of layouts and compose the cache misses for all layouts by summing up the cache misses of component subsets. Our experiment with the composition-based cache simulation shows that the differences in the cache misses are within 10% of the full cache simulation for 4-way and 8-way set associative caches. In addition to the cache miss estimation, our heuristic algorithm takes account of the extra instruction overhead incurred by structure reorganization. Our experiment with several structure intensive benchmarks shows the 37% reduction in the L1D read misses and the 28% reduction in the L2 read misses. As a result, the execution times are also reduced by 19% on average.     

乱序执行机器上的load指令调度

随着处理器和存储器速度差距的不断拉大，访存指令尤其是频繁cache miss的指令成为影响性能的重要瓶颈。编译器由于无法得知访存指令动态执行的拍数，一般假定这些指令的延迟为cache命中或者cache miss的延迟，所以并不准确。我们引入cache profiling技术来收集访存指令运行时的cache miss或者命中的信息，利用这些信息来计算访存的延迟。乱序机器上硬件的指令调度对于发射窗口内的指令能进行很好的动态调度，编译器则对更长的范围内的指令调度更有优势。在reorder buffer中cache miss一旦发生，容易引起reorder buffer满，导致流水线阻塞。调度容易cache miss的指令。使其并行执行，从而隐藏cache miss的长延迟，就可以提高程序性能。因此，我们针对load指令，一方面修改频繁miss的指令的延迟，一方面修改调度策略，提高存储级并行度。实验证明，我们的调度对于bzip2有高达4．8％的提升，art有4％的提升，整体平均提高1．5％。     

Cacheminer: A runtime approach to exploit cache locality on SMP

Exploiting cache locality of parallel programs at runtime is a complementary approach to a compiler optimization. This is particularly important for those applications with dynamic memory access patterns. We propose a memory-layout oriented technique to exploit cache locality of parallel loops at runtime on Symmetric Multiprocessor (SMP) systems. Guided by application-dependent and targeted architecture-dependent hints, our system, called Cacheminer, reorganizes and partitions a parallel loop using the memory-access space of its execution. Through effective runtime transformations, our system maximizes the data reuse in each partitioned data region assigned in a cache, and minimizes the data sharing among the partitioned data regions assigned to all caches. The executions of tasks in the partitions are scheduled in an adaptive and locality-presented way to minimize the execution time of programs by trading off load balance and locality. We have implemented the Cacheminer runtime library on two commercial SMP servers and an SimCS simulated SMP. Our simulation and measurement results show that our runtime approach can achieve comparable performance with the compiler optimizations for programs with regular computation and memory-access patterns, whose load balance and cache locality can be well optimized by the tiling and other program transformations. However, our experimental results show that our approach is able to significantly improve the memory performance for the applications with irregular computation and dynamic memory access patterns. These types of programs are usually hard to optimize by static compiler optimizations     

Early miss prediction based periodic cache bypassing for high performance GPUs

The aim of the hierarchical cache memories that are equipped for GPUs is the management of irregular memory access patterns for general purpose workloads. The level-1 data cache (L1D) of the GPU plays an important role for its ability in the provision of high bandwidth and low-latency data accesses. Unfortunately, the GPU L1D may become a performance bottleneck due to facing many performance challenges such as cache contention and resource congestion. These critical issues come from a large number of simultaneous requests from the SIMT cores to the limited-capacity L1D. We observe that many applications have a large number of requests with a very low reuse probability, resulting in the GPU performance degradation. To overcome these challenges, we propose an efficient cache bypassing mechanism that can periodically filter the access stream and make an accurate bypassing decision to improve the efficiency of the L1D. The proposed technique uses a small storage amount to save the tag array of the L1D for the early miss prediction before it makes the bypassing decision. The experiment results reveal that the proposed technique significantly increases the cache efficiency and the GPU performance.     

高性能RISC微处理器硬件仿真器设计

在微处理器设计中，为了系统级软硬件协同仿真，在后端设计前必须采用硬件仿真器对设计进行系统验证．为此，采用FPGA设计32位RISC流水线结构微处理器的硬件仿真器．此设计主要包括以下特点：采用内存管理单元(MMU)可以实现虚拟地址管理；包括片上Cache，其中包括指令Cache(I-Cache)和数据Cache(D-Cache)；采用标准SYSAD接口设计；包括片上乘除处理单元(MDU)；实现精确异常处理．设计采用XILINX公司的xc2v2000实现，其工作频率为30MHz．