DocumentCode :
3429333
Title :
Application data prefetching on the IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer
Author :
I-Hsin Chung ; Changhoan Kim ; Hui-Fang Wen ; Guojing Cong
Author_Institution :
IBM Res., Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
fYear :
2012
fDate :
10-16 Nov. 2012
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
8
Abstract :
Memory access latency is often a crucial performance limitation for high performance computing. Prefetching is one of the strategies used by system designers to bridge the processor-memory gap. This paper describes a new innovative list prefetching feature introduced in the IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer. The list prefetcher records the L1 cache miss addresses and prefetches them in the next iteration. The evaluation shows this list prefetching mechanism reduces data fetching time when L1 cache misses happen and improves the performance for high performance computing applications with repeating nonuniform memory access patterns. Its performance is compatible with classic stream prefetcher when properly configured.
Keywords :
mainframes; parallel processing; storage management; IBM Blue Gene-Q supercomputer; L1 cache miss address; classic stream prefetcher; data fetching time reduction; data prefetching; high performance computing; list prefetching mechanism; memory access latency; processor-memory gap; Arrays; Engines; Hardware; Optimized production technology; Phase frequency detector; Prefetching;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), 2012 International Conference for
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT
ISSN :
2167-4329
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0805-2
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/SC.2012.19
Filename :
6468514
Link To Document :
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