Characterizing the Performance of Hybrid Memory Cube Using ApexMAP Application Probes
Khaled Z. Ibrahim, Farzad Fatollahi-Fard, David Donofrio, John M. Shalf · 2016
Full characterization of the performance of a new memory technology is typically a subtle process because of the difficulty in subjecting the memory to different access patterns before creating a full system. Simple performance characterization, such as raw bandwidth, does not give enough information about the suitability of the memory for different architectural design choices, such as suitability for processing in memory, performance reliance on relaxed ordering semantic, or how to implement atomics, etc.