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A Study on Effect of Code Distribution and Data Replication for Multicore Computing Architectures

  • Cho, Doosan
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.282-287
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    • 2021
  • A multicore system must be able to take full advantage of the program's instruction and data parallelism. This study introduces the data replication technique as a support technique to maximize the program's instruction and data parallelism. Instruction level parallelism can be limited by data dependency. In this case, if data is replicated to each processor core and used, instruction level parallelism can be used to the maximum. The technique proposed in this study can maximize the performance improvement effect when applied to scientific applications such as matrix multiplication operation.

Deep Learning Model Parallelism (딥러닝 모델 병렬 처리)

  • Park, Y.M.;Ahn, S.Y.;Lim, E.J.;Choi, Y.S.;Woo, Y.C.;Choi, W.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2018
  • Deep learning (DL) models have been widely applied to AI applications such image recognition and language translation with big data. Recently, DL models have becomes larger and more complicated, and have merged together. For the accelerated training of a large-scale deep learning model, model parallelism that partitions the model parameters for non-shared parallel access and updates across multiple machines was provided by a few distributed deep learning frameworks. Model parallelism as a training acceleration method, however, is not as commonly used as data parallelism owing to the difficulty of efficient model parallelism. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the state of the art in model parallelism by comparing the implementation technologies in several deep learning frameworks that support model parallelism, and suggests a future research directions for improving model parallelism technology.

A Representation for Multithreaded Data-parallel Programs : PCFG(Parallel Control Flow Graph) (다중스레드 데이타 병렬 프로그램의 표현 : PCFG(Parallel Control Flow Graph))

  • 김정환
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.29 no.12
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    • pp.655-664
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    • 2002
  • In many data-parallel applications massive parallelism can be easily extracted through data distribution. But it often causes very long communication latency. This paper shows that task parallelism, which is extracted from data-parallel programs, can be exploited to hide such communication latency Unlike the most previous researches over exploitation of task parallelism which has not been considered together with data parallelism, this paper describes exploitation of task parallelism in the context of data parallelism. PCFG(Parallel Control Flow Graph) is proposed to represent a multithreaded program consisting of a few task threads each of which can include a few data-parallel loops. It is also described how a PCFG is constructed from a source data-parallel program through HDG(Hierarchical Dependence Graph) and how the multithreaded program can be constructed from the PCFG.

Static Analysis of AND-parallelism in Logic Programs based on Abstract Interpretation (추상해석법을 이용한 논리언어의 AND-병렬 태스크 추출 기법)

  • Kim, Hiecheol;Lee, Yong-Doo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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    • 1997.11a
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    • pp.79-89
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    • 1997
  • Logic programming has many advantages as a paradigm for parallel programming because it offers ease of programming while retaining high expressive power due to its declarative semantics. In parallel logic programming, one of the important issues is the compile-time parallelism detection. Static data-dependency analysis has been widely used to gather some information needed for the detection of AND-parallelism. However, the static data-dependency analysis cannot fully detect AND-parallelism because it does not provide some necessary functions such as the propagation of groundness. As an alternative approach, abstract interpretation provides a promising way to deal with AND-parallelism detection, while a full-blown abstract interpretation is not efficient in terms of computation since it inherently employs some complex operations not necessary for gathering the information on AND-parallelism. In this paper, we propose an abstract domain which can provide a precise and efficient way to use the abstract interpretation for the detection of AND-parallelism of logic programs.

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Extracting Maximum Parallelism for Parallel Computing (병렬 계산을 위한 최대 병렬성 추출 방법)

  • Park, Doo-Soon
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.93-103
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    • 2005
  • Since the most program execution time is consumed in a loop structure, extracting parallelism from sequential loop programs is critical for the faster program execution. Conventional studies for extracting the parallelism are focused mostly on a uniform data dependence distance. In this paper, we proposed data dependency elimination method for a nested loop and extended data dependency elimination method to extract parallelism from the loop with procedure calls. The data dependency elimination method and the extended data dependency elimination method can be applied to uniform and non-uniform data dependency distance. We compared our method with conventional methods using CRAY-T3E for the performance evaluation. The results show that the proposed algorithms are very effective.

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Efficient Use of On-chip Memory through Profile-Driven Array Reorganization

  • Cho, Doosan;Youn, Jonghee
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.345-359
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    • 2011
  • In high performance embedded systems, the use of multiple on-chip memories is an essential architectural feature for exploiting inherent parallelism in multimedia applications. This feature allows multiple data accesses to be executed in parallel. However, it remains difficult to effectively exploit of multiple on-chip memories. The successful use of this architecture strongly depends on how to efficiently detect and exploit memory parallelism in target applications. In this paper, we propose a technique based on a linear array access descriptor [1], which is generated from profiled data, to detect and exploit memory parallelism. The proposed technique tackles an array reorganization problem to maximize memory parallelism in multimedia applications. We present preliminary experiments applying the proposed technique onto a representative coarse grained reconfigurable array processor (CGRA) with multimedia kernel codes. Our experimental results demonstrate that our technique optimizes data placement by putting independent data on separate storage. The results exhibit 9.8% higher performance on average compared to the existing method.

An Efficient Algorithm for Big Data Prediction of Pipelining, Concurrency (PCP) and Parallelism based on TSK Fuzzy Model (TSK 퍼지 모델 이용한 효율적인 빅 데이터 PCP 예측 알고리즘)

  • Kim, Jang-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.19 no.10
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    • pp.2301-2306
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    • 2015
  • The time to address the exabytes of data has come as the information age accelerates. Big data transfer technology is essential for processing large amounts of data. This paper posits to transfer big data in the optimal conditions by the proposed algorithm for predicting the optimal combination of Pipelining, Concurrency, and Parallelism (PCP), which are major functions of GridFTP. In addition, the author introduced a simple design process of Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy model and designed a model for predicting transfer throughput with optimal combination of Pipelining, Concurrency and Parallelism. Hence, the author evaluated the model of the proposed algorithm and the TSK model to prove the superiority.

A Data Dependency Elimination Algorithm for Extracting Maximum Parallelism (최대 병렬성 추출을 위한 자료 종속성 제거 알고리즘)

  • 송월봉;박두순
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.139-139
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    • 1999
  • In most application programs, loops usually comprise most of the computation in a program and the most important source of parallelism. When the data dependency relation is uniformin terms of distance, several compile time parallelization methods were introduced. On the otherhand,when the data dependency relation is non-uniform in distance, the compile time extraction ofparallelism is much complicated. In this paper, a general method the extracting parallelism in nestedloops is presented. This algorithm can be applicable where the dependency relation is both uniform andnon-uniform in distance. According to execution repeatedly the statements in nested loops, thealgorithm which effectively removes these kind of data dependencies is developed in order to presentthe total parallelization of nested loops.

Parallel Simulation of Bounded Petri Nets using Data Packing Scheme (데이터 중첩을 통한 페트리네트의 병렬 시뮬레이션)

  • 김영찬;김탁곤
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.67-75
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    • 2002
  • This paper proposes a parallel simulation algorithm for bounded Petri nets in a single processor, which exploits the SIMD(Single Instruction Multiple Data)-type parallelism. The proposed algorithm is based on a data packing scheme which packs multiple bytes data in a single register, thereby being manipulated simultaneously. The parallelism can reduce simulation time of bounded Petri nets in a single processor environment. The effectiveness of the algorithm is demonstrated by presenting speed-up of simulation time for two bounded Petri nets.

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Limits on the efficiency of event-based algorithms for Monte Carlo neutron transport

  • Romano, Paul K.;Siegel, Andrew R.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.49 no.6
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    • pp.1165-1171
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    • 2017
  • The traditional form of parallelism in Monte Carlo particle transport simulations, wherein each individual particle history is considered a unit of work, does not lend itself well to data-level parallelism. Event-based algorithms, which were originally used for simulations on vector processors, may offer a path toward better utilizing data-level parallelism in modern computer architectures. In this study, a simple model is developed for estimating the efficiency of the event-based particle transport algorithm under two sets of assumptions. Data collected from simulations of four reactor problems using OpenMC was then used in conjunction with the models to calculate the speedup due to vectorization as a function of the size of the particle bank and the vector width. When each event type is assumed to have constant execution time, the achievable speedup is directly related to the particle bank size. We observed that the bank size generally needs to be at least 20 times greater than vector size to achieve vector efficiency greater than 90%. When the execution times for events are allowed to vary, the vector speedup is also limited by differences in the execution time for events being carried out in a single event-iteration.