One of the key challenges computer architects and compiler writers are facing, is the increasing discrepancy between processor cycle times and main memory access times. To overcome this problem, program transformations that decrease cache misses are used, to reduce average latency for memory accesses. Tiling is a widely used loop iteration reordering technique for improving locality of references. In this paper, we further reduce cache misses, restructuring the memory layout of multi-dimensional arrays, that are accessed by tiled instruction code. In our method, array elements are stored in a blocked way, exactly as they are swept by the tiled instruction stream. We present a straightforward way to easily translate multi-dimensional indexing of arrays into their blocked memory layout using simple binary-mask operations. Indices for such array layouts are now easily calculated based on the algebra of dilated integers, similarly to morton-order indexing. Actual experimental results on three different hardware platforms, using 5 benchmarks, illustrate that execution time is greatly improved when combining tiled code with tiled array layouts and binary mask-based index translation functions. Both TLB and L1 cache misses are concurrently minimized, for the same tile size, thus, applying the proposed layouts, locality of references is greatly improved. Finally, simulations using the Simplescalar tool, verify that our enhanced performance is due to the considerable reduction of cache misses in all levels of memory hierarchy.
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) has been proposed to improve system throughput by overlapping instructions from multiple threads on a single wide-issue processor. Recent studies have demonstrated that diversity of simultaneously executed applications can bring up significant performance gains due to SMT. However, the speedup of a single application that is parallelized into multiple threads, is often sensitive to its inherent instruction level parallelism (ILP), as well as the efficiency of synchronization and communication mechanisms between its separate, but possibly dependent threads. Moreover, as these separate threads tend to put pressure on the same architectural resources, no significant speedup can be observed.In this paper, we evaluate and contrast thread-level parallelism (TLP) and speculative precomputation (SPR) techniques for a series of memory intensive codes executed on a specific SMT processor implementation. We explore the performance limits by evaluating the tradeoffs between ILP and TLP for various kinds of instruction streams. By obtaining knowledge on how such streams interact when executed simultaneously on the processor, and quantifying their presence within each application's threads, we try to interpret the observed performance for each application when parallelized according to the aforementioned techniques. In order to amplify this evaluation process, we also present results gathered from the performance monitoring hardware of the processor.
Abstract-The increasing disparity between memory latency and processor speed is a critical bottleneck in achieving high performance. Recently, several studies have been conducted on blocked data layouts, in conjunction with loop tiling to improve locality of references. In this paper, we further reduce cache misses, restructuring the memory layout of multi-dimensional arrays, so that array elements are stored in a blocked way, exactly as they are swept by the tiled instruction stream. A straightforward way is presented to easily translate multi-dimensional indexing of arrays into their blocked memory layout using quick and simple binary-mask operations. Actual experimental results on three hardware platforms, using 5 different benchmarks with various array sizes, illustrate that execution time is greatly improved when combining tiled code with blocked array layouts and binary, mask-based translation functions for fast indexing. Finally, simulations verify that our enhanced performance is due to the considerable reduction of cache misses in all levels of memory hierarchy, and especially due to their concurrent minimization, for the same tile size.
Efficient use of the memory hierarchy is essential for good performance due to the ever increasing gap between processor and memory speed. Program transformations such as loop tiling have been shown to be an effective approach to improving locality and cache exploitation, especially for dense matrix scientific computations. In conjunction with tiling, several experimental studies have been conducted on blocked data layouts, as a data transformation technique used to boost the cache performance. The stability of the achieved performance improvements are heavily dependent on the appropriate selection of tile sizes, taking into account the actual layout of the arrays in memory.In this paper, we first provide a theoretical analysis for the cache and TLB performance of blocked data layouts. According to this analysis, the optimal tile size that maximizes L1 cache utilization, should completely fit in the L1 cache, to avoid any interference misses. We prove that when applying optimization techniques, such as register assignment, array alignment, prefetching and loop unrolling, tile sizes equal to L1 capacity, offer better cache utilization, even for loop bodies that access more than just one array. Increased selfor/and cross-interference misses are now tolerated through prefetching. Such larger tiles also reduce lost CPU cycles due to less mispredicted branches. Results are validated through simulations and actual benchmarks on various modern platforms.
Minimizing cache misses is one of the most important factors to reduce average latency for memory accesses. Tiled codes modify the instruction stream to exploit cache locality for array accesses. In this paper, we further reduce cache misses, restructuring the memory layout of multidimensional arrays, that are accessed by tiled instruction code. In our method, array elements are stored in a blocked way, exactly as they are swept by the tiled instruction stream. We present a straightforward way to easily translate multidimensional indexing of arrays into their blocked memory layout using simple binary-mask operations. Indices for such array layouts are easily calculated based on the algebra of dilated integers, similarly to morton-order indexing. Actual experimental results, using matrix multiplication and LU-decomposition on various size arrays, illustrate that execution time is greatly improved when combining tiled code with tiled array layouts and binary maskbased index translation functions. Simulations using the Simplescalar tool, verify that enhanced performance is due to the considerable reduction of total cache misses.
Abstract. Cache misses form a major bottleneck for memory-intensive applications, due to the significant latency of main memory accesses. Loop tiling, in conjunction with other program transformations, have been shown to be an effective approach to improving locality and cache exploitation, especially for dense matrix scientific computations. Beyond loop nest optimizations, data transformation techniques, and in particular blocked data layouts, have been used to boost the cache performance. The stability of performance improvements achieved are heavily dependent on the appropriate selection of tile sizes.In this paper, we investigate the memory performance of blocked data layouts, and provide a theoretical analysis for the multiple levels of memory hierarchy, when they are organized in a set associative fashion. According to this analysis, the optimal tile size that maximizes L1 cache utilization, should completely fit in the L1 cache, even for loop bodies that access more than just one array. Increased self-or/and cross-interference misses can be tolerated through prefetching. Such larger tiles also reduce mispredicted branches and, as a result, the lost CPU cycles that arise. Results are validated through actual benchmarks on an SMT platform.
The present paper investigates the social pedagogical reflexes from various organizations in Greece during the period of economical crisis in order to handle the various and different problems that have occurred. These social pedagogical reflexes are investigated and presented through an indicative presentation of several social pedagogical actions taking place in this country during this period, originating from different social pedagogical institutions. The indicative social pedagogical actions have been divided into five basic categories, aiming to show in a better way the respective lines of interest of the practice of Greek social pedagogy during the crisis period. In this context, this paper presents different social pedagogical actions, focusing on the profile, the aims and the social pedagogical work of institutions, i.e. of non-governmental organizations, associations, public and private initiatives, usually based on volunteer actions of Greek citizens. These institutions are aiming to resolve and effectively address a wide range of social pedagogical problems. With the support of the aforementioned institutions, coordinated and active networks of volunteers have been created throughout the country. These aim to effectively support social pedagogically oriented programmes and actions. Through their collaboration, selfless offer, systematic work, empathy, solidarity and respect towards every person, all of the individuals and groups involved strongly demonstrate the ethos of social pedagogy and greatly increase the possibilities for practitioners in social pedagogy.
Abstract. Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) has been proposed to improve system throughput by overlapping instructions from multiple threads on a single wide-issue processor. Recent studies have demonstrated that heterogeneity of simultaneously executed applications can bring up significant performance gains due to SMT. However, the speedup of a single application that is parallelized into multiple threads, is often sensitive to its inherent instruction level parallelism (ILP), as well as the efficiency of synchronization and communication mechanisms between its separate, but possibly dependent, threads. In this paper, we explore the performance limits by evaluating the tradeoffs between ILP and TLP for various kinds of instructions streams. We evaluate and contrast speculative precomputation (SPR) and thread-level parallelism (TLP) techniques for a series of scientific codes executed on an SMT processor. We also examine the effect of thread synchronization mechanisms on multithreaded parallel applications that are executed on a single SMT processor. In order to amplify this evaluation process, we also present results gathered from the performance monitoring hardware of the processor.
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