Performance impact of programmer-inserted Data Prefetches for irregular access patterns with a case study of FMM VList algorithm
Abhishek Tondon · Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library) · 2013
by letting me use the code authored by him as a Case Study for this report.The experiments conducted for this report use the FMM V-list kernel written by Dhairya as the baseline code, in which I insert software prefetches at strategic points to showcase the performance improvements brought by programmer inserted prefetches.An excerpt of the code is included in Appendix B. Additionally, in section 4.1, I rely on the paper lead-authored by Dhairya to present an overview of the FMM algorithm on a part of which the case study is performed.