Optimizing GPU Cache Policies for MI Workloads

In recent years, machine intelligence (MI) applications have emerged as a major driver for the computing industry. Optimizing these workloads is important but complicated. As memory demands grow and data movement overheads increasingly limit performance, determining the best GPU caching policy to us...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2019-09
Main Authors: Alsop, Johnathan, Sinclair, Matthew D, Bharadwaj, Srikant, Dutu, Alexandru, Gutierrez, Anthony, Kayiran, Onur, LeBeane, Michael, Puthoor, Sooraj, Zhang, Xianwei, Tsung Tai Yeh, Beckmann, Bradford M
Format: Article
Language:English
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Caching
Computer simulation
Policies
Workloads
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Summary:In recent years, machine intelligence (MI) applications have emerged as a major driver for the computing industry. Optimizing these workloads is important but complicated. As memory demands grow and data movement overheads increasingly limit performance, determining the best GPU caching policy to use for a diverse range of MI workloads represents one important challenge. To study this, we evaluate 17 MI applications and characterize their behaviors using a range of GPU caching strategies. In our evaluations, we find that the choice of caching policy in GPU caches involves multiple performance trade-offs and interactions, and there is no one-size-fits-all GPU caching policy for MI workloads. Based on detailed simulation results, we motivate and evaluate a set of cache optimizations that consistently match the performance of the best static GPU caching policies.
ISSN:2331-8422