Memory scheduling towards high-throughput cooperative heterogeneous computing
Hao Wang, Ripudaman Singh, Michael Schulte, Nam Sung Kim · 2014
Technology scaling enables the integration of both the CPU and the GPU into a single chip for higher throughput and energy efficiency. In such a single-chip heterogeneous processor (SCHP), its memory bandwidth is the most critically shared resource, requiring judicious management to maximize the throughput. Previous studies on memory scheduling for SCHPs have focused on the scenario where multiple applications are running on the CPU and the GPU respectively, which we denote as a multi-tasking scenario. However, another increasingly important usage scenario for SCHPs is cooperative heterogeneous computing, where a single parallel application is partitioned between the CPU and the GPU such that the overall throughput is maximized.