• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.87-95
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• 2024

This study is on modulo scheduling algorithms for multicore processor in machine learning applications. Machine learning algorithms are designed to perform a large amount of operations such as vectors and matrices in order to quickly process large amounts of data stream. To support such large amounts of computations, processor architectures to support applications such as artificial intelligence, neural networks, and machine learning are designed in the form of parallel processing such as multicore. To effectively utilize these multi-core hardware resources, various compiler techniques are being used and studied. In this study, among these compiler techniques, we analyzed the modular scheduler, which is especially important in one core's computation pipeline. This paper looked at and compared the iterative modular scheduler and the swing modular scheduler, which are the most widely used and studied. As a result, both schedulers provided similar performance results, and when measuring register pressure as an indicator, it was confirmed that the swing modulo scheduler provided slightly better performance. In this study, a technique that divides recurrence edge is proposed to improve the minimum initiation interval of the modulo schedulers.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2014년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.12-14
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• 2014

하드웨어가 해저드(hazard) 검출을 지원하지 않는 멀티이슈 VLIW 프로세서의 성능을 높이기 위해서는 컴파일러가 명령어 의존성과 하드웨어 자원의 제약을 지키는 범위 안에서 최대한 명령어수준 병렬성(ILP)을 활용하는 것이 중요하다. 기본 블록(basic block) 스케쥴링은 Branch 등 제어 흐름(control flow)의 경계를 넘어선 스케쥴링을 행하지 않아 그 효과가 제한적이다. 소프트웨어 파이프라이닝(software pipelining)은 루프(loop)의 경계를 허물어 여러반본(iteration)의 명령어가 동시에 수행되도록 하는 것으로 모듈로 스케쥴링(modulo scheduling)은 그 중에 한 범주의 스케쥴링 기법들을 일컫는다. 본 연구에서는 그 중 한가지인 스윙 모듈로 스케쥴러(swing modulo scheduler)[1]를 구현하여 그 효과를 알아보고자 한다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2014년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.166-168
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• 2014

Coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures (CGRAs) present a potential of high compute throughput with energy efficiency. A CGRA consists of an array of functional units (FU), which communicate with each other through an interconnect network containing transmission nodes and register files. To achieve high performance from the software solutions mapped onto CGRAs, modulo scheduling of loops is generally employed. One of the key challenges in modulo scheduling for CGRAs is to explicitly handle routings of operands from a source to a destination operations through various routing resources. Existing modulo schedulers for CGRAs are slow because finding a valid routing is generally a searching problem over a large space, even with the guidance of well-defined cost metrics. Applications in traditional embedded multimedia domains are regarded relatively tolerant to a slow compile time in exchange of a high quality solution. However, many rapidly growing domains of applications, such as 3D graphics, require a fast compilation. Entrances of CGRAs to these domains have been blocked mainly due to its long compile time. We attack this problem by utilizing patternized routes, for which resources and time slots for a success can be estimated in advance when a source operation is placed. By conservatively reserving predefined resources at predefined time slots, future routings originated from the source operation are guaranteed. Experiments on a real-world 3D graphics benchmark suite show that our scheduler improves the compile time up to 6000 times while achieving average 70% throughputs of the state-of-art CGRA modulo scheduler, edge-centric modulo scheduler (EMS).