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Performance characterization of data-intensive kernels on AMD Fusion architectures

Kenneth Lee, Heshan Lin, Wu-chun Feng
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Computer Science – Research and Development, 2012

@article{springerlink:10.1007/s00450-012-0209-1,

   author={Lee, Kenneth and Lin, Heshan and Feng, Wu-chun},

   affiliation={Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA},

   title={Performance characterization of data-intensive kernels on AMD Fusion architectures},

   journal={Computer Science – Research and Development},

   publisher={Springer Berlin / Heidelberg},

   issn={1865-2034},

   keyword={Computer Science},

   pages={1-10},

   url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00450-012-0209-1},

   note={10.1007/s00450-012-0209-1},

   year={2012}

}

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The cost of data movement over the PCI Express bus is one of the biggest performance bottlenecks for accelerating data-intensive applications on traditional discrete GPU architectures. To address this bottleneck, AMD Fusion introduces a fused architecture that tightly integrates the CPU and GPU onto the same die and connects them with a high-speed, on-chip, memory controller. This novel architecture incorporates shared memory between the CPU and GPU, thus enabling several techniques for inter-device data transfer that are not available on discrete architectures. For instance, a kernel running on the GPU can now directly access a CPU-resident memory buffer and vice versa. In this paper, we seek to understand the implications of the fused architecture on CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing by systematically characterizing various memory-access techniques instantiated with diverse memory-bound kernels on the latest AMD Fusion system (i.e., Llano A8-3850). Our study reveals that the fused architecture is very promising for accelerating data-intensive applications on heterogeneous platforms in support of supercomputing.
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