Replica: A Wireless Manycore for Communication-Intensive and Approximate Data

Vimuth Fernando, Antonio Franques, Sergi Abadal, Sasa Misailovic, Josep Torrellas

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Abstract

Data access patterns that involve fine-grained sharing, multicasts, or reductions have proved to be hard to scale in sharedmemory platforms. Recently, wireless on-chip communication has been proposed as a solution to this problem, but a previous architecture has used it only to speed-up synchronization. An intriguing question is whether wireless communication can be widely effective for ordinary shared data. This paper presents Replica, a manycore that uses wireless communication for communication-intensive ordinary data. To deliver high performance, Replica supports an adaptive wireless protocol and selective message dropping. We describe the computational patterns that leverage wireless communication, programming techniques to restructure applications, and tools that help with automation. Our results show that wireless communication is effective for ordinary data. For 64 cores, Replica obtains a mean speed-up of 1.76x over a conventional machine. The mean speed-up reaches 1.89x if approximate-computing transformations are enabled. The average energy consumption is substantially reduced by 34% (or 38% with approximate transformations), and the area increases only modestly.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationASPLOS 2019 - 24th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages849-863
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9781450362405
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 4 2019
Event24th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ASPLOS 2019 - Providence, United States
Duration: Apr 13 2019Apr 17 2019

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems - ASPLOS

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ASPLOS 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityProvidence
Period4/13/194/17/19

Keywords

  • Approximate
  • Multicore
  • Parallelism
  • Wireless

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems
  • Hardware and Architecture

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