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Automated Program Profiling And Analysis For Managing Heterogeneous Memory Systems, Adam Palmer Howard
Automated Program Profiling And Analysis For Managing Heterogeneous Memory Systems, Adam Palmer Howard
Masters Theses
Many promising memory technologies, such as non-volatile, storage-class memories and high-bandwidth, on-chip RAMs, are beginning to emerge. Since each of these new technologies present tradeoffs distinct from conventional DRAMs, next-generation systems are likely to include multiple tiers of memory storage, each with their own type of devices. To efficiently utilize the available hardware, such systems will need to alter their data management strategies to consider the performance and capabilities provided by each tier.
This work explores a variety of cross-layer strategies for managing application data in heterogeneous memory systems. We propose different program profiling-based techniques to automatically partition program allocation …
Metafork: A Compilation Framework For Concurrency Models Targeting Hardware Accelerators, Xiaohui Chen
Metafork: A Compilation Framework For Concurrency Models Targeting Hardware Accelerators, Xiaohui Chen
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Parallel programming is gaining ground in various domains due to the tremendous computational power that it brings; however, it also requires a substantial code crafting effort to achieve performance improvement. Unfortunately, in most cases, performance tuning has to be accomplished manually by programmers. We argue that automated tuning is necessary due to the combination of the following factors. First, code optimization is machine-dependent. That is, optimization preferred on one machine may be not suitable for another machine. Second, as the possible optimization search space increases, manually finding an optimized configuration is hard. Therefore, developing new compiler techniques for optimizing applications …