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Fractal communication in software data dependency graphs

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Communication is increasingly more costly than computation, but little work has been done on characterising the intrinsic communication behaviour of algorithms. We show that the dynamic data dependency graphs for a wide number of benchmarks exhibit multi-scale fractal communication. This has important implications for the locality of NoC communication in a CMP as well as for temporal locality. Benchmarks that do not exhibit fractal scaling or that have high fractal dimensionality may have poor communication scalability on a CMP.

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SPAA '08: Proceedings of the twentieth annual symposium on Parallelism in algorithms and architectures
June 2008
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ISBN:9781595939739
DOI:10.1145/1378533
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  2. NoC
  3. communication complexity
  4. fractal

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