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Bandwidth Efficient On-Chip Interconnect Designs for GPGPUs

H. Jang, J. Kim, P. Gratz, K. H. Yum, and E. J. Kim

Proceedings of 52nd Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, June, 2015.

Modern computational workloads require abundant thread level parallelism (TLP), necessitating highly-parallel, many-core accelerators such as General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs). GPGPUs place a heavy demand on the on-chip interconnect between the many cores and a few memory controllers (MCs). Thus, traffic is highly asymmetric, impacting on-chip resource utilization and system performance. Here, we analyze the communication demands of typical GPGPU applications, and propose efficient Network-on-Chip (NoC) designs to meet those demands. We show that the proposed schemes improve performance by up to 64.7%. Compared to the best of class prior work, our VC monopolizing and partitioning schemes improve performance by 25%.

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