Co-mining: a processing-in-memory assisted framework for memory-intensive PoW acceleration
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Abstract
Recently, HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) and PIM (Processing in Memory) integrated technology such as Samsung function-in-memory DRAM opens a new door for memory-intensive PoW acceleration by jointly exploiting GPU, PIM and HBM. In this paper, we for the first time propose a GPU/PIM Co-Mining framework to accelerate memory intensive PoW by fully exploiting HBM-PIM's bandwidth and coordinately scheduling mining tasks in both GPU and PIM. Specifically, we first design a linear programming model to intelligently guide the GPU/PIM task scheduling. An extended finite-state-machine model is designed for the GPU memory controller to switch PIM working mode (compute/memory mode) accordingly. Finally, considering the speed difference between intra-/inter-channel memory accesses, a hybrid memory access method is proposed to minimize inter-channel data movements. We evaluate Co-Mining based on Samsung's HBM2-based function-in-memory architecture. The experimental results show that it can achieve up to 38.5% hashrate improvement compared with the method by directly integrating PIM into PoW acceleration with GPU.
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