Principal Kernel Analysis: A Tractable Methodology to Simulate Scaled GPU Workloads
Cesar Avalos Baddouh, Mahmoud Khairy, Roland N. Green, Mathias Payer, Timothy G. Rogers · 2021
Simulating all threads in a scaled GPU workload results in prohibitive simulation cost. Cycle-level simulation is orders of magnitude slower than native silicon, the only solution is to reduce the amount of work simulated while accurately representing the program.