{"title":"OpenPiton4HPC: Optimizing OpenPiton Toward High-Performance Manycores","authors":"Neiel Leyva;Alireza Monemi;Noelia Oliete-Escuín;Guillem López-Paradís;Xabier Abancens;Jonathan Balkind;Enrique Vallejo;Miquel Moretó;Lluc Alvarez","doi":"10.1109/JETCAS.2024.3428929","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, numerous multicore RISC-V platforms have emerged. Development frameworks such as OpenPiton are employed in designs that aim to scale to a large number of cores. While OpenPiton presents a large flexibility, supporting different requirements and processing cores, some of its design decisions result in designs that are not optimized for High-Performance Computing (HPC) requirements. This work presents OpenPiton4HPC, an extension and optimization of OpenPiton for high-performance manycores. The key contributions are enabling multiple memory controllers, supporting router bypassing and NoC concentration, adding support for configurable cache sizes and cache block sizes, and allowing configurable bus widths in the NoC and in the cache SRAMs. On a 64-core manycore architecture, these new features and optimizations provide a geometric mean speedup of 7.2x compared to the OpenPiton baseline.","PeriodicalId":48827,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10599264/","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In recent years, numerous multicore RISC-V platforms have emerged. Development frameworks such as OpenPiton are employed in designs that aim to scale to a large number of cores. While OpenPiton presents a large flexibility, supporting different requirements and processing cores, some of its design decisions result in designs that are not optimized for High-Performance Computing (HPC) requirements. This work presents OpenPiton4HPC, an extension and optimization of OpenPiton for high-performance manycores. The key contributions are enabling multiple memory controllers, supporting router bypassing and NoC concentration, adding support for configurable cache sizes and cache block sizes, and allowing configurable bus widths in the NoC and in the cache SRAMs. On a 64-core manycore architecture, these new features and optimizations provide a geometric mean speedup of 7.2x compared to the OpenPiton baseline.
期刊介绍:
The IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems is published quarterly and solicits, with particular emphasis on emerging areas, special issues on topics that cover the entire scope of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society, namely the theory, analysis, design, tools, and implementation of circuits and systems, spanning their theoretical foundations, applications, and architectures for signal and information processing.