Software Data Prefetching for Software Pipelined Loops

Sánchez, J.; González, Antonio

doi:10.1006/jpdc.1999.1553

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“…To this end we adopted the technique of software pipelining [17], in conjunction with software prefetching for both the write and read of Listing 1. This is where the code runs in a pipelined fashion and required memory location is prefetched, non-blocking, ahead of time.…”

Section: A Improving Memory Localitymentioning

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Modelling the Earth's geomagnetic environment on Cray machines using PETSc and SLEPc

Brown

Bainbridge

Beggan

et al. 2020

Concurrency and Computation

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The British Geological Survey's global geomagnetic model, Model of the Earth's Magnetic Environment (MEME), is an important tool for calculating the strength and direction of the Earth's magnetic field, which is continually in flux. While the ability to collect data from ground-based observation sites and satellites has grown rapidly, the memory bound nature of the original code has proved a significant limitation on the size of the modelling problem required. In this paper, we describe work done replacing the bespoke, sequential, eigensolver with that of the PETSc/SLEPc package for solving the system of normal equations. Adopting PETSc/SLEPc also required fundamental changes in how we built and distributed the data structures, and as such, we describe an approach for building symmetric matrices that provides good load balance and avoids the need for close coordination between the processes or replication of work. We also study the memory bound nature of the code from an irregular memory accesses perspective and combine detailed profiling with software cache prefetching to significantly optimise this. Performance and scaling characteristics are explored on ARCHER, a Cray XC30, where we achieved a speed up for the solver of 294 times by replacing the model's bespoke approach with SLEPc.

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Section: A Improving Memory Localitymentioning

confidence: 99%