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Manycore Network Interfaces for In-Memory Rack-Scale Computing

Daglis, Alexandros  
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Novakovic, Stanko  
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Bugnion, Edouard  
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2015
Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium in Computer Architecture
42nd International Symposium in Computer Architecture

Datacenter operators rely on low-cost, high-density technologies to maximize throughput for data-intensive services with tight tail latencies. In-memory rack-scale computing is emerging as a promising paradigm in scale-out datacenters capitalizing on commodity SoCs, low-latency and high-bandwidth communication fabrics and a remote memory access model to enable aggregation of a rack’s memory for critical data-intensive applications such as graph processing or key-value stores. Low latency and high bandwidth not only dictate eliminating communication bottlenecks in the software protocols and off-chip fabrics but also a careful on-chip integration of network interfaces. The latter is a key challenge especially in architectures with RDMA-inspired one-sided operations that aim to achieve low latency and high bandwidth through on-chip Network Interface (NI) support. This paper proposes and evaluates network interface architectures for tiled manycore SoCs for in-memory rack-scale computing. Our results indicate that a careful splitting of NI functionality per chip tile and at the chip’s edge along a NOC dimension enables a rack-scale architecture to optimize for both latency and bandwidth. Our best manycore NI architecture achieves latencies within 3% of an idealized hardware NUMA and efficiently uses the full bisection bandwidth of the NOC, without changing the on-chip coherence protocol or the core’s microarchitecture.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/2749469.2750415
Author(s)
Daglis, Alexandros  
Novakovic, Stanko  
Bugnion, Edouard  
Falsafi, Babak  
Grot, Boris  
Date Issued

2015

Published in
Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium in Computer Architecture
ISBN of the book

978-1-4503-3402-0

Subjects

Coherence

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NOC

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Manycores

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Network Interface

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NI

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REVIEWED

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42nd International Symposium in Computer Architecture

Portland, Oregon, USA

June 13-17, 2015

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April 28, 2015
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