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Exploiting a new level of DLP in multimedia applications
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Author:
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Corbal San Adrián, Jesús; Valero Cortés, Mateo; Espasa Sans, Roger
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CAP - Grup de Computació d'Altes Prestacions |
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This paper proposes and evaluates MOM: a novel ISA paradigm targeted at multimedia applications. By fusing conventional vector ISA approaches together with more recent SIMD-like (Single Instruction Multiple Data) ISAs (such as MMX), we have developed a new matrix oriented ISA which efficiently deals with the small matrix structures typically found in multimedia applications. MOM exploits a level of DLP not reachable by neither conventional vector ISAs nor SIMD-like media ISA extensions. Our results show that MOM provides a factor of 1.3x to 4x performance improvement when compared with two different multimedia extensions (MMX and MDMX) on several kernels, which translates into up to a 50% of performance gain when measuring full applications (20% in average). Furthermore, the streaming nature of MOM provides additional advantages for executing multimedia applications, such as a very low fetch pressure or a high tolerance to memory latency, making MOM an ideal candidate for the embedded domain. |
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Peer Reviewed |
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors -Parallel processing (Electronic computers) -Embedded computer systems -Parallel architectures -Multimedia systems -Embedded systems -Processament en paral·lel (Ordinadors) -Ordinadors immersos, Sistemes d' |
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Article - Published version Conference Object |
Published by:
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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