Memory and Parallelism Analysis Using a Platform-Independent Approach

04/18/2019

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by   Stefano Corda, et al.

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Ericsson

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TU Eindhoven

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Emerging computing architectures such as near-memory computing (NMC) promise improved performance for applications by reducing the data movement between CPU and memory. However, detecting such applications is not a trivial task. In this ongoing work, we extend the state-of-the-art platform-independent software analysis tool with NMC related metrics such as memory entropy, spatial locality, data-level, and basic-block-level parallelism. These metrics help to identify the applications more suitable for NMC architectures.