suvinay

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by suvinay 9y ago
Thank you for your interest. We are planning to create a web page for this soon (likely http://swarm.mit.edu -- it's not live yet). Till then, you should be able to find our papers and some upcoming ones at my advisor, Dani
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by suvinay 9y ago
2: We are currently working on a compiler to automatically delineate tasks, assign domains etc. given sequential code. As part of that effort, we are looking at SPEC workloads, yes.
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by suvinay 9y ago
Your intuition on this improving Thread Level Speculation (TLS) is correct. I do want to clarify that this is not just a better implementation of TLS though -- our execution model is more expressive and avoids some of the pitfalls of TLS (s
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by suvinay 9y ago
This is a concern orthogonal to our work. Today, there are commercial chips with a large number of cores / processing elements today, e.g. NVidia's Volta has ~5120 "cores", Intel's Xeon Phi has upto 72 cores. And th
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by suvinay 9y ago
1. Currently the programmer needs to delineate code into tasks. A couple of points to note: -- Often the programmer can start with the serial code, and determine how to delineate tasks. In our experience this is often easier than writing
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by suvinay 9y ago
Hi all. This is Suvinay Subramanian from MIT. I am one of the authors on the Fractal paper. I wanted to provide some context for this work, and briefly summarize our paper. I hope this will address some of the comments on this thread. And I
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by suvinay 9y ago
The 88x is the maximum speedup we get, yes. We believe our ideas are applicable to a wide range of domains ranging from databases, to discrete-event simulation, to machine learning, and graph analytics.
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by suvinay 9y ago
This is a new execution model + hardware architecture. Currently we have evaluated it in simulation only. But stay tuned for hardware.
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by suvinay 9y ago
We use the x86-64 ISA for our cores, yes. But our ideas are applicable beyond the x86 ISA. As nn3 points out, currently our ideas are evaluated in simulation.
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by suvinay 9y ago
Correct. One of the goals of this work was to expose and exploit the abundant parallelism within large atomic tasks. However, the tasks within a domain can be ordered or unordered. Our system will exploit any kind of parallelism that is a