Architecture Background for Using Spatter - Githubissues

hpcgarage / spatter

Benchmark for measuring the performance of sparse and irregular memory access.

Other

75 stars 15 forks source link

Architecture Background for Using Spatter #127

Open jyoung3131 opened 1 year ago

jyoung3131 commented 1 year ago

It would be nice to have some brief architecture resources so students and new researchers can understand the how and why of using Spatter for benchmarking. I've started a wiki page we should look to fill in here.

https://github.com/hpcgarage/spatter/wiki/Architecture-Background

We want to mention briefly where to find more information on the following:

Cache design and eviction policies, external memories
How prefetchers work
How CPU and GPU caches differ

Optional

memory coalescing support (GPUs, A64FX)

Resources:

https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/cpu-cache/
Hennessy and Patterson - Chapter 2 - Memory Hierarchies
Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk (as a reference)

jyoung3131 commented 1 year ago

I think this is a good start but it might be a bit too in-depth in some spots. I added a few key questions we need to answer at the beginning, and we might need to write a shorter, more narrative style intro for each question.