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Deriving Efficient Data Movement from Decoupled Access/Execute Specifications

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On multi-core architectures with software-managed memories, effectively orchestrating data movement is essential to performance, but is tedious and error-prone. In this paper we show that when the programmer can explicitly specify both the memory access pattern and the execution schedule of a computation kernel, the compiler or run-time system can derive efficient data movement, even if analysis of kernel code is difficult or impossible. We have developed a framework of C++ classes for decoupled Access/Execute specifications, allowing for automatic communication optimisations such as software pipelining and data reuse. We demonstrate the ease and efficiency of programming the Cell Broadband Engine architecture using these classes by implementing a set of benchmarks, which exhibit data reuse and non-affine access functions, and by comparing these implementations against alternative implementations, which use hand-written DMA transfers and software-based caching.

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inria-00445952 , version 1 (11-01-2010)

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Lee W. Howes, Anton Lokhmotov, Alastair F. Donaldson, Paul H.J. Kelly. Deriving Efficient Data Movement from Decoupled Access/Execute Specifications. HiPEAC 2009 - High Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers, Jan 2009, Paphos, Cyprus. ⟨10.1007/978-3-540-92990-1_14⟩. ⟨inria-00445952⟩

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