SHF: EAGER: FIESTA: A Sound Multi-Program Workload Methodology

SHF：EAGER：FIESTA：完善的多程序工作负载方法

基本信息

批准号：
1012008
负责人：
Daniel Sorin
金额：
$ 18.85万
依托单位：
University of Pennsylvania
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2010-07-01 至 2012-10-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1012008&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
SHF EAGER FIESTA Sound Multi

项目摘要

Multi-program execution, the concurrent execution of multiple independent applications, will play an important role in efficiently exploiting the potential of future multi-core systems. Researchers use multi-program workloads to evaluate proposed designs and policies for various aspects of multi-program execution. Unfortunately, the fixed workload and variable workload multi-program workload methodologies used today are unsound and lead to incorrect results. Therefore, the proposed research is aimed at investigating a new multi-program workload construction scheme, called FIESTA (Fixed Instruction with Equal STAndalone runtimes), in which application samples are chosen so that individual application have equal runtimes when executing alone. Samples are then mixed and matched to form multi-program workloads, but the same samples are used in every experiment. The research will investigate two issues related to FIESTA: Generation of application samples and Extension to multi-threaded environments. FIESTA workloads should produce results that are internally consistent and plausible.Computer architecture research surges when new tools, benchmarks, and methodologies are introduced and distributed. The quality and depth of single-program experimental evaluation improved when efficient sampling and simulation techniques like SimPoints were introduced. FIESTA should provide the same impetus for multi-program execution research and education, while becoming the standard methodology for sampling both single-threaded and multi-threaded programs.

多程序执行，即多个独立应用程序的并发执行，将在有效开发未来多核系统的潜力方面发挥重要作用。研究人员使用多程序工作负载来评估多程序执行各个方面的拟议设计和策略。不幸的是，当今使用的固定工作负载和可变工作负载多程序工作负载方法并不健全，并且会导致不正确的结果。因此，本研究旨在研究一种新的多程序工作负载构建方案，称为 FIESTA（具有相等 STAndalone 运行时间的固定指令），其中选择应用程序样本，以便各个应用程序在单独执行时具有相等的运行时间。然后将样本混合并匹配以形成多程序工作负载，但每个实验中都使用相同的样本。该研究将调查与FIESTA相关的两个问题：应用程序样本的生成和多线程环境的扩展。 FIESTA 工作负载应该产生内部一致且合理的结果。当新工具、基准和方法被引入和分发时，计算机体系结构研究激增。当引入 SimPoints 等高效采样和模拟技术时，单程序实验评估的质量和深度得到了提高。 FIESTA 应该为多程序执行研究和教育提供同样的动力，同时成为单线程和多线程程序采样的标准方法。