A case for merging the ILP and DLP paradigms

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Defense date1998
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Abstract
The goal of this paper is to show that instruction level parallelism (ILP) and data-level parallelism (DLP) can be merged in a single architecture to execute vectorizable code at a performance level that can not be achieved using either paradigm on its own. We will show that the combination of the two techniques yields very high performance at a low cost and a low complexity. We will show that this architecture can reach a performance equivalent to a superscalar processor that sustained 10 instructions per cycle. We will see that the machine exploiting both types of parallelism improves upon the ILP-only machine by factors of 1.5-1.8. We also present a study on the scalability of both paradigms and show that, when we increase resources to reach a 16-issue machine, the advantage of the ILP+DLP machine over the ILP-only machine increases up to 2.0-3.45. While the peak achieved IPC for the ILP machine is 4, the ILP+DLP machine exceeds 10 instructions per cycle.
CitationQuintana, F., Espasa, R., Valero, M. A case for merging the ILP and DLP paradigms. A: Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing. "Proceedings of the 6th EUROMICRO Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, PDP'98: University of Madrid: January 21-23, 1998, Madrid, Spain". Madrid: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1998, p. 217-224.
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