TY - GEN
T1 - ParallAX
T2 - ISCA'07: 34th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture
AU - Yeh, Thomas Y.
AU - Faloutsos, Petros
AU - Patel, Sanjay J.
AU - Reinman, Glenn
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Future interactive entertainment applications will featurethe physical simulation of thousands of interacting objectsusing explosions, breakable objects, and cloth effects. Whilethese applications require a tremendous amount of performanceto satisfy the minimum frame rate of 30 FPS, there is a dramatic amount of parallelism in future physics workloads.How will future physics architectures leverage parallelismto achieve the real-time constraint?. We propose and characterize a set of forward-looking benchmarksto represent future physics load and explore the designspace of future physics processors. In response to thedemand of this workload, we demonstrate an architecturewith a set of powerful cores and caches to provide performancefor the serial and coarse-grain parallel components ofphysics simulation, along with a exible set of simple coresto exploit fine-grain parallelism. Our architecture combinesintelligent, application-aware L2 management with dynamiccoupling/ allocation of simple cores to complex cores. Furthermore,we perform sensitivity analysis on interconnectalternatives to determine how tightly to couple these cores.
AB - Future interactive entertainment applications will featurethe physical simulation of thousands of interacting objectsusing explosions, breakable objects, and cloth effects. Whilethese applications require a tremendous amount of performanceto satisfy the minimum frame rate of 30 FPS, there is a dramatic amount of parallelism in future physics workloads.How will future physics architectures leverage parallelismto achieve the real-time constraint?. We propose and characterize a set of forward-looking benchmarksto represent future physics load and explore the designspace of future physics processors. In response to thedemand of this workload, we demonstrate an architecturewith a set of powerful cores and caches to provide performancefor the serial and coarse-grain parallel components ofphysics simulation, along with a exible set of simple coresto exploit fine-grain parallelism. Our architecture combinesintelligent, application-aware L2 management with dynamiccoupling/ allocation of simple cores to complex cores. Furthermore,we perform sensitivity analysis on interconnectalternatives to determine how tightly to couple these cores.
KW - Application specific processor
KW - Chip multiprocessor
KW - Interactive entertainment
KW - Physics based animation
KW - Real-time physics
KW - Stream processing
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U2 - 10.1145/1250662.1250691
DO - 10.1145/1250662.1250691
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:35348814920
SN - 1595937064
SN - 9781595937063
T3 - Proceedings - International Symposium on Computer Architecture
SP - 232
EP - 243
BT - ISCA'07
Y2 - 9 June 2007 through 13 June 2007
ER -