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Introduction Lectures Slides and Figures from MKP and Sudhakar Yalamanchili (1) Reading • Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.7, 1.8 • Key Ideas Types of systems implications for computer architecture The impact of technology New rules the power wall and parallelism (2) Historical Perspective • ENIAC built in World War II was the first general purpose computer Used for computing artillery firing tables 80 feet long by 8.5 feet high and several feet wide Each of the twenty 10 digit registers was 2 feet long Used 18,000 vacuum tubes Performed 1900 additions per second –Since then Moore’s Law –Transistor density doubles every 18-24 months – Modern version –#cores double every 1824 months (3) The Modern Era • • • www.3g.co.uk Hundred’s of $$ Battery operated Internet capable blogs.intel.com • Contrast with warehouse scale computing, e.g., Google and Amazon • Software as a service • Backend for mobile devices • Power consumption limited (4) Opening the Box Capacitive multitouch LCD screen 3.8 V, 25 Watt-hour battery Computer board (5) Inside the Processor • Apple A5 (6) Warehouse Scale Computers SUN MD S20: Water cooled containers 187.5KW Google data center in Oregon Power densities of 10-20 KW/m2 footprint cost From R. Katz, “Tech Titans Building Boom,” IEEE Spectrum, February 2009,http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb09/7327 (7) Inside the Core (CPU) • Datapath: performs operations on data • Control: sequences datapath, memory, ... • Cache memory Small fast SRAM memory for immediate access to data www.wikipedia.org (IBM HS20 blade server) (8) Inside the Processor • AMD Barcelona: 4 processor cores (9) Reminder • High-level language ECE 2035 Level of abstraction closer to problem domain • Assembly language Textual representation of instructions • Hardware representation Encoded instructions and data ECE 3056 How does this work? (10) Moore’s Law Goal: Sustain Performance Scaling 11 From wikipedia.org (11) Constrained by power, instruction-level parallelism, memory latency (12) §1.8 The Sea Change: The Switch to Multiprocessors Uniprocessor Performance Memory Wall “Moore’s Law” 1000 CPU µProc 60%/yr. registers ALU 100 Processor-Memory Performance Gap: (grows 50% / year) L1D$ registers ALU L1I$ L1D$ L1I$ L2$ L2$ 10 DRAM DRAM 7%/yr. L2$ L2$ 1 Time L3$ L3$ (13) New Rules: The End of Dennard Scaling GATE DRAIN SOURCE tox L • Voltage is no longer scaling at the same rate • Feature size Slower scaling in power per transistor increasing power densities From R. Dennard, et al., “Design of ion-implanted MOSFETs with very small physical dimensions,” IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. SC-9, no. 5, pp. 256-268, Oct. 1974. (14) 14 Post Dennard Performance Scaling æ ops ö æ ops ö Perf ç ÷ = Power (W ) ´ Efficiency ç ÷ è s ø è joule ø W. J. Dally, Keynote IITC 2012 (15) 15 Power Wall New Metrics • Power efficiency • Energy Efficiency • In CMOS IC technology Power Capacitive load Voltage 2 Frequency ×30 5V → 1V ×1000 (16) Understanding Cost X2: 300mm wafer, 117 chips, 90nm technology X4: 45nm technology • What happens if you simply port a design across technology generations? • What about design costs? Hardware and software (17) Integrated Circuit Cost Cost per wafer Cost per die Dies per wafer Yield Dies per wafer Wafer area Die area 1 Yield (1 (Defects per area Die area/2)) 2 • Nonlinear relation to area and defect rate Wafer cost and area are fixed Defect rate determined by manufacturing process Die area determined by architecture and circuit design (18) Average Transistor Cost Per Year Source: Courtesy H.H. Lee, ECE 3055 (19) 3D Packaging • New packaging technologies to increase processormemory bandwidth • What problems does this create? Images from techweekeurope.co.uk (20) A Safe Place for Data • Volatile main memory Loses instructions and data when power off • Non-volatile secondary memory Magnetic disk Flash memory Optical disk (CDROM, DVD) (21) Networks • Communication and resource sharing • Local area network (LAN): Ethernet Within a building • Wide area network (WAN: the Internet • Wireless network: WiFi, Bluetooth (22) Parallelism • Multicore microprocessors More than one processor per chip • Parallel programming Compare with instruction level parallelism o o Hardware executes multiple instructions at once Hidden from the programmer Hard to do o o o Programming for performance Load balancing Optimizing communication and synchronization (23) Multicore, Many Core, and Heterogeneity NVIDIA Keplar • Performance scaling via increasing core count • The advent of heterogeneous computing AMD Trinity Intel Ivy Bridge Different instruction sets (24) Eight Great Ideas • Design for Moore’s Law • Use abstraction to simplify design • Make the common case fast • Performance via parallelism • Performance via pipelining • Performance via prediction • Hierarchy of memories • Dependability via redundancy (25) Concluding Remarks • New Rules Power and energy efficiency are driving concerns • Cost is an exercise in mass production Relationship to instruction set architecture (ISA)? • Instruction set architecture (ISA) The hardware/software interface is the vehicle for portability and cost management • Multicore Core scaling vs. frequency scaling Need for parallel programming need to think parallel! (26) Study Guide • Moore’s Law What is it? What are the cost and performance consequences? • Technology Trends Explain the reason for the shift to power and energy efficient computing • Understanding Cost What are the major elements of cost? • Multicore processor Distinguishing features • Basic Components of a Modern Processor (27) Glossary • Energy efficiency • Performance scaling • Dennard Scaling • Parallel programming • Die yield • Power efficiency • Feature size • Power Wall • Heterogeneity • Wafer • Moore’s Law • Multicore architecture • Memory Wall (28)