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Design and Analysis of an APU for Exascale ComputingConference
Published in the Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2017), February, 2017 (industry session acceptance rate: 5/15 ≈ 33%)Authors
Thiruvengadam Vijayaraghavan, Yasuko Eckert, Gabriel H. Loh, Michael J. Schulte, Mike Ignatowski, Bradford M. Beckmann, William C. Brantley, Joseph L. Greathouse, Wei Huang, Arun Karunanithi, Onur Kayiran, Mitesh Meswani, Indrani Paul, Matthew Poremba, Steven Raasch, Steven K. Reinhardt, Greg Sadowski, Vilas SridharanAbstract
The challenges to push computing to exaflop levels are difficult given desired targets for memory capacity, memory bandwidth, power efficiency, reliability, and cost. This paper presents a vision for an architecture that can be used to construct exascale systems. We describe a conceptual Exascale Node Architecture (ENA), which is the computational building block for an exascale supercomputer. The ENA consists of an Exascale Heterogeneous Processor (EHP) coupled with an advanced memory system. The EHP provides a high-performance accelerated processing unit (CPU+GPU), in-package high-bandwidth 3D memory, and aggressive use of die-stacking and chiplet technologies to meet the requirements for exascale computing in a balanced manner. We present initial experimental analysis to demonstrate the promise of our approach, and we discuss remaining open research challenges for the community.