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CSL Luncheon: Single-Graph Multiple Flows: Energy Efficient Design Alternative for GPGPUs
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Dani Voitsechov
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Thursday, 10.04.2014, 12:30
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Room 337-8 Taub Bld.
The single-graph multiple-flows (SGMF) architecture combines coarse-grain reconfigurable computing with dynamic dataflow to deliver massive thread-level parallelism. The CUDA-compatible SGMF architecture is positioned as an energy efficient design alternative for GPGPUs. The architecture maps a compute kernel, represented as a dataflow graph, onto a coarse-grain reconfigurable fabric composed of a grid of interconnected functional units. Each unit dynamically schedules instances of the same static instruction originating from different CUDA threads. The dynamically scheduled functional units enable streaming the data of multiple threads (or graph flows, in SGMF parlance) through the grid. The combination of statically mapped instructions and direct communication between functional units obviate the need for a full instruction pipeline and a centralized register file, whose energy overheads burden GPGPUs. The SGMF architecture delivers performance comparable to that of contemporary GPGPUs while consuming 40% less energy on average.