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 +===== Lecture 25 (2/2 Wed.) =====
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 +  * Latency sensitivity
 +    * Performance drops a lot when the memory request latency is long
 +  * TCM
 +    * Tradeoff between throughput and fairness
 +    * Latency sensitive cluster (non-intensive cluster)
 +      * Ranking based on memory intensity
 +    * Bandwidth intensive cluster
 +      * Round robin within the cluster
 +    * Generally latency sensitive cluster has more priority
 +    * Provide robust fairness vs. throughput
 +    * Complexity of TCM?
 +  * Different ways to control interference in DRAM
 +    * Partitioning of resource
 +      * Channel partitioning:​ map applications that interfere with each other in a different channel
 +        * Keep track of application'​s characteristics
 +        * Dedicate a channel might waste the bandwidth
 +        * Need OS support to determine the channel bits
 +    * Source throttling
 +      * A controller throttle the core depends on the performance target
 +      * Example: Fairness via source throttling
 +        * Detect unfairness and throttle application that is interfering
 +        * How do you estimate slowdown?
 +        * Threshold based solution: hard to configure
 +    * App/thread scheduling
 +      * Critical threads usually stall the progress
 +    * Designing DRAM controller
 +      * Has to handle the normal DRAM operations
 +        * Read/​write/​refresh/​all the timing constraints
 +      * Keep track of resources
 +      * Assign priorities to different requests
 +      * Manage requests to banks
 +    * Self-optimizing controller
 +      * Use machine learning to improve DRAM controller
 +  * DRAM Refresh
 +    * Why does DRAM has to refresh every 64ms
 +    * Banks are unavailable during refresh
 +      * LPDDR mitigate this by using a per-bank refresh
 +    * Has to spend longer time with bigger DRAM
 +    * Distributed refresh: stagger refresh every 64 ms in a distributed manner
 +      * As oppose to burst refresh (long pause time)
 +  * RAIDR: Reduce DRAM refresh by profiling and binning
 +    * Some row do not have to be refresh very frequently
 +      * Profile the row
 +        * High temperature changes the retention time: need online profiling
 +  * Bloom filter
 +    * Represent set membership
 +    * Approximated
 +    * Can contain false positive
 +      * Better/more hash function helps eliminate this
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 +===== Lecture 26 (4/7 Mon.) =====
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 +  * Tolerate latency can be costly
 +    * Instruction window is complex
 +      * Benefit also diminishes
 +    * Designing the buffers can be complex
 +    * A simpler way to tolerate out of order is desirable
 +  * Different sources that cause the core to stall in OoO
 +    * Cache miss
 +    * Note that stall happens if the inst. window is full
 +  * Scaling instruction window size is hard
 +    * It is better (less complex) to make the windows more efficient
 +  * Runahead execution
 +    * Try to optain MLP w/o increasing instruction windows
 +    * Runahead (i.e. execute ahead) when there is a long memory instruction
 +      * Long memory instruction stall processor for a while anyways, so it's better to make use out of it
 +      * Execute future instruction to generate accurate prefetches
 +      * Allow future data to be in the cache
 +    * How to support runahead execution?
 +      * Need a way to checkpoing the state when entering runahead mode
 +      * How to make executing in the wrong path useful?
 +      * Need runahead cache to handle load/store in Runahead mode (since they are speculative)
 +    * Cost and benefit of runahead execution (slide number 27)
 +    * Runahead can have inefficiency
 +      * Runahead period that are useless
 +        * Get rid of useless inefficient period
 +    * What if there is a dependent cache miss
 +      * Cannot be paralellized in a vanilla runahead
 +      * Can predict the value of the dependent load
 +        * How to predict the address of the load
 +          * Delta value information
 +          * Stride predictor
 +          * AVD prediction
 +  ​
 +    ​
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