• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.9-16
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• 2016

Recently, many research groups have focused on GPGPUs in order to improve the performance of computing systems. GPGPUs can execute general-purpose applications as well as graphics applications by using parallel GPU hardware resources. GPGPUs can process thousands of threads based on warp scheduling and CTA scheduling. In this paper, we utilize the traditional CTA scheduler to assign a various number of CTAs to SMs. According to our simulation results, increasing the number of CTAs assigned to the SM statically does not improve the performance. To solve the problem in traditional CTA scheduling schemes, we propose a new IPC-based dynamic CTA scheduling scheme. Compared to traditional CTA scheduling schemes, the proposed dynamic CTA scheduling scheme can increase the GPU performance by up to 13.1%.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.56-63
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• 2015

Modern GPU can execute mass parallel computation by exploiting many GPU core. GPGPU architecture, which is one of approaches exploiting outstanding computational resources on GPU, executes general-purpose applications as well as graphics applications, effectively. In this paper, we investigate the impact of memory-efficiency and performance according to number of CTAs(Cooperative Thread Array) on a SM(Streaming Multiprocessors), since the analysis of relation between number of CTA on a SM and them provides inspiration for researchers who study the GPU to improve the performance. Our simulation results show that almost benchmarks increasing the number of CTAs on a SM improve the performance. On the other hand, some benchmarks cannot provide performance improvement. This is because the number of CTAs generated from same kernel is a little or the number of CTAs executed simultaneously is not enough. To precisely classify the analysis of performance according to number of CTA on a SM, we also analyze the relations between performance and memory stall, dram stall due to the interconnect congestion, pipeline stall at the memory stage. We expect that our analysis results help the study to improve the parallelism and memory-efficiency on GPGPU architecture.