Optimization of Multi-Core Accelerator Performance Based on Accurate Performance Estimation

Sunwoo Kim

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3151876

2022-01-01

Sunwoo Kim

Young-Ho Seo

Sungkyung Park *

Chester Sungchung Park

DOI：10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3151876

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Multicore accelerators have emerged to efficiently execute recent applications with complex computational dimensions. Compared to a single-core accelerator, a multicore accelerator handles a larger amount of communication and computation simultaneously. Since the conventional performance estimation algorithm tailored to single-core accelerators cannot estimate the performance of multicore accelerators accurately, we propose a novel performance estimation algorithm for a multicore accelerator. The proposed algorithm predicts a dynamic communication bandwidth of each direct memory access controller (DMAC) based on the runtime state of DMACs, making it possible to estimate the communication amounts handled by DMACs accurately by taking into account the temporal intervals. The proposed algorithm is evaluated for convolutional neural networks and wireless communications. The experimental results using a pre-register transfer level (RTL) simulator shows that the proposed algorithm can estimate the performance of a multicore accelerator with the estimation error of up to 2.8%, regardless of the system communication bandwidth. These results were also verified by the hardware implementations on Xilinx ZYNQ. In addition, the proposed algorithm is used to explore a design space of accelerator core dimensions, and the resulting optimal core dimension provides performance gains of 10.8% and 31.2%, compared to the conventional multicore accelerator and single-core accelerator, respectively. The source code is available on the GitHub repository: https://github.com/SDL-KU/OptAccTile.

Keyword:

Multicore processing

Estimation

Bandwidth

Random access memory

System-on-chip

Heuristic algorithms

Prediction algorithms

Communication bandwidth

direct memory access

multicore accelerator

performance estimation