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PACE: Power-Aware Computing Engines

PACE: Power-Aware Computing Engines. Krste Asanovic Saman Amarasinghe Martin Rinard Computer Architecture Group MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/. Energy-Exposed Architectures. PACE Approach. Energy-Conscious Compilers.

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PACE: Power-Aware Computing Engines

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  1. PACE: Power-Aware Computing Engines Krste Asanovic Saman Amarasinghe Martin Rinard Computer Architecture Group MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/

  2. Energy-Exposed Architectures PACE Approach Energy-Conscious Compilers Rethink Hardware-Software Interface for Power-Aware Computing

  3. + LD x - LD + x  Conventional Architectures only Expose Performance Current RISC/VLIW ISAs only expose hardware features that affect critical path through computation

  4. PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC I TLB I TLB I TLB I TLB I TLB I TLB I TLB I TLB I$ I$ I$ I$ I$ I$ I$ I$ Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Reg R Reg R Reg R Reg R Reg R Reg R Reg R Reg R + - x x LD  LD + Bypass Bypass Bypass Bypass Bypass Bypass Bypass Bypass Buffer Buffer Buffer Buffer Buffer Buffer Buffer Buffer Reg W Reg W Reg W Reg W Reg W Reg W Reg W Reg W Addr Addr D TLB D TLB D$ D$ Energy Consumption is Hidden Most energy is consumed in microarchitectural operations that are hidden from software!

  5. Energy-Exposed Instruction Sets Reward compile-time knowledge with run-time energy savings • hardware provides mechanisms to disable microarchitectural activity, a software power grid • compile-time analysis determines which pieces of microarchitecture can be disabled for given application • Co-develop energy-exposed architectures and energy-conscious compilers

  6. Energy Management Layers Application Algorithm Source Code Compiler Run-Time/O.S. PACE Focus Areas Instruction Set Microarchitecture Circuit Design Fabrication Technology

  7. SCALE Strawman Processor • 32 processing tiles • Fast on-chip data network • 128x32b FLOP/cycle total • 4096x8b OP/cycle total • 128MB on-chip DRAM/16MB SRAM • External DRAM interface • Chip-to-chip interconnect channels • 20x20mm2 in 0.1m CMOS I/O Tile Bulk SRAM/ Embedded DRAM Data Unit Addr. Unit Cntl. Unit SRAM/cache Off-chip DRAM Data Net

  8. Data Unit Address Unit Control Unit FP Multiplier VLIW and Config. Cache AALU0 CALU ARegs 16x32b C Regs 16x32b Inst. Fetch &Decode AALU1 Memory Management Inst. Buffer DALU2 DALU3 DALU0 DALU1 DReg0 64x64b DReg3 64x64b DReg2 64x64b DReg1 64x64b Tag Store PC B Regs 8x32b Address/Data Interconnect FP Adder BALU 32KB SRAM (16 banks x 256 words x 64 bits) Data Net SCALE Processor Tile Details

  9. Vector Control VLIW Cache Cntl. Unit Cntl. Unit Addr. Unit Addr. Unit Data Unit Data Unit Thread 3 Thread 4 Thread 2 Thread 1 SCALE Supports All Forms of Parallelism • Vector • most streaming applications highly vectorizable • vectors reduce instruction fetch/decode energy up to 20-60x (depends on vector length) • mature programming and compilation model • SCALE supports vectors in hardware • address and data units optimized for vectors • hardware vector control logic Vector Instructions VLIW Program Counter • VLIW/Reconfigurable • exploit instruction-level parallelism for non-vectorizable applications • superscalar ILP expensive in hardware • SCALE supports VLIW-style ILP • reuse address and data unit datapath resources • expose datapath control lines • single wide instruction = configuration • provide control/configuration cache distributed along datapaths • Multithreading/CMP • run separate threads on different tiles • any mix of vector or VLIW across tiles

  10. SCALE Exposes Locality at Multiple Levels • 2D Tile and DRAM layout • software maps computation to minimize network hops • Local SRAM within tile • software split between instruction/data/unified storage • software scratchpad RAMs or hardware-managed caches • Distributed cached control state within tile • control unit: instruction buffer • data/address unit: vector instructions or VLIW/configuration cache • Distributed register file and ALU clusters within tile • Control Unit: scalar (C) registers versus branch (B) registers • Address Unit: address (A) registers • Data Unit: Four clusters of data registers (D0-D4) • Accumulators and sneak paths to bypass register files

  11. SCALE Software Power Grid • Turn off unused register banks and ALUs • Reduce datapath width • set width separately for each unit in tile (e.g., 32b in control unit, 16b in address unit, 64b in data unit) • Turn off individual local memory banks • Configure memory addressing model • From hardware cache-coherence to local scratchpad RAM • Turn off idle tiles and idle inter-tile network segments • Turn off refresh to unused DRAM banks

  12. Existing Infrastructure • RAW Compiler Technology • SUIF-based C/FORTRAN compiler for tiled arrays • SPAN pointer analysis • Bitwise bitwidth analysis • Superword Level Parallelism • Space/Time scheduling • MAPS compiler-managed memory system • Pekoe Low-Power Microprocessor Library Cells • Full-custom processor blocks in 0.25mm CMOS process • Designed for voltage-scaled operation • SyCHOSys Energy-Performance Simulator • Fast, multi-level compiled simulation • Energy models for Pekoe processor blocks

  13. Bitwidth Analysis • Compile-time detection of minimum bitwidth required for each variable at every static location in the program • A collection of techniques • Arithmetic operations • Boolean operations • Bitmask operations • Loop induction variable bounding • Clamping optimization • Type promotion • Back propagation • Array index optimization • Value-range propagation using data-flow analysis • Loop analysis • Incorporated pointer alias analysis • Paper in PLDI’00

  14. 5 4.5 4 3.5 3 Average Dynamic Power (mW) 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 bubblesort histogram jacobi pmatch Bitwidth Power Savings(CASIC Synthesis) • Methodology • C  RTL • RTL simulation gives switching • Synthesis tool reports dynamic power • IBM SA27E process, 0.15m drawn, 200 MHz Base case Bitwidth analysis

  15. SyCHOSys Energy-Performance Simulation • SyCHOSys compiles a custom cycle simulator from a structural machine description • Supports gate level to behavioral level, or any mixture • Behavior specified in C++, compiles to C++ object • Can selectively compile in transition counting on nets • Automatically factors out common counts for faster simulation • Arbitrary energy models for functional units/memories • Capacitances extracted from circuit layout or estimated • Use fast bit-parallel structural energy models (much faster than lookups) • Paper in Complexity-Effective Workshop, ISCA’00

  16. Simulation Speed (Hz) Error in power prediction C-Behavioral (gcc) 109,000,000.00 N/A Verilog-Behavioral (VCS) 544,000.00 N/A Verilog-Structural (VCS) 341,000.00 N/A SyCHOSys-Structural 8,000,000.00 N/A SyCHOSys-Power 195,000.00 0.5% - 8.2% PowerMill (extracted layout) 0.73 7.2% - 13.7% Star-Hspice (extracted layout) 0.01 0%(reference) SyCHOSys Evaluation • GCD circuit benchmark • full-custom datapath layout (0.25m TSMC CMOS process) • mixture of static and precharged blocks

  17. SyCHOSys Processor Model • Five-stage pipelined MIPS RISC processor+caches • User/kernel mode, precise interrupts, validated with architectural test suite+random test programs • Runs SPECint95 benchmarks • Simulation speeds (Sun Ultra-5, 333MHz workstation) • (ISA-level interpreter 3 MHz) • Behavioral RTL 400kHz • Structural model 40kHz • Energy model 16kHz • A Gigacycle/CPU-day or Megacycle/CPU-minute with better accuracy than Powermill

  18. PACE Milestones • Year 2000: Baseline design • Baseline SCALE architecture definition • RAW compiler generating code for baseline SCALE design • Baseline SCALE architecture energy-performance simulator • Year 2001: Single tile • Energy-exposed SCALE tile architecture definition • Energy-conscious compiler passes for SCALE tile • Energy-exposed SCALE tile energy-performance simulator • Evaluation of energy-exposed SCALE tile • Year 2002: Multi-tile • Energy-exposed SCALE multi-tile architecture definition • Multi-tile energy-performance simulator • Multi-tile energy-conscious compiler passes • Evaluation of multi-tile SCALE processor • (Options: Fabricate SCALE prototype)

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