Eine Zeitreise in die Welt der Computer. 1 Pipelined Vector Processing and Scientific Computation John G. Zabolitzky
Mar 28, 2015
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Pipelined Vector Processing and Scientific Computation
John G. Zabolitzky
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Applications of High-Performance Computing
Weather prediction, climatic simulation
fluid dynamics simulation (aerodynamics for aerospace, automobile, combustion, ....)
basic science
cosmology
quantum mechanical many-body problems
chemistry
solid-state
quantum fluids
high-energy physics
cryptography
weapons research
energy research
nuclear reactor simulation
fusion research
many many more
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Terminal State of Scalar Computing: CDC 7600, 1968
Maximum RISC performance of 1 operation/cycle achieved
No further improvement possible without change of paradigm
36 MHz => 36 MIPS => 5 MFLOPS real
The CDC 7600 (designed by Seymour Cray) was the most powerful of all computers from 1968 to 1976 when the Cray-1 achieved > 10 times its performance
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Pipelined Scalar Execution
time ====>instruction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 fetch decode execute2 fetch decode execute3 fetch decode execute4 fetch decode execute5 fetch decode execute6 fetch decode7 fetch
Pipelined execution on parallel functional units
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Scalar Code Example
DO i=1,100 a(i)=b(i)*c(i)
load b, inc addesss
load c, inc address
multiply
store a, inc address
decrement count, loop?
5 instructions = cycles (optimum) for one multiply
pipelined multiply: could start one multiply each and every cycle => only 20% efficient use
expensive multiplier sits idle most of the time
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Architectural Alternatives
* Pipelined Scalar (RISC) as outlined before
* Pipelined Vector (this presentation further down)
* SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) parallel arithmetic (e.g., ILLIAC IV)
too expensive, inefficient: larger number of lightly used multipliers
* Superscalar = multiple issue in one cycle
all modern single-chip CPUs (Intel to TI); keep all functions busy
* VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) = Variant of Superscalar
* MIMD (Multiple Instruction Multiple Data) true parallel streams, e.g. Cray T3E, IBM Blue Gene, IBM Cell: may be superimposed on top of ANY CPU architecture
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Vector Computation
Scientific codes have high percentage in looping over simple data structures
DO i=1,100 a(i) = b*c(i) + d(i)
simple logical structure ==>
set up such that one multiply/cycle
one instruction for entire loop
MFLOP rate = cycle rate or multiple thereof
specialized for scientific/engineering tasks
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Vector Pipeline c(i)=a(i)*b(i)
fetch a(i++)multip. 1 multip. 2 multip. 3 multip. 4 store c(i++)
fetch b(i++)time
i=1 |2 1 |3 2 1 |4 3 2 1 |5 4 3 2 1 V6 5 4 3 2 17 6 5 4 3 28 7 6 5 4 3
Inventor: Henry Ford
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Need to Vectorize; some automatic, high quality requires hand-optimization
Naive scalar code for matrix multiply
» s=0.0» do j=1,n» s=s+a(i,j)*b(j,k)
Recursive on s => adder pipeline blocked
vector code for matrix multiply
» do i=1,n» c(i,k) = c(i,k) + a(i,j)*b(j,k)
Independent vector elements, but 1.5x bandwidth
Frequently good idea: exchange inner/outer loop
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First Vector Computers
Control Data Corporation (CDC) STAR-100 [STring ARray 100 MFLOPS]
memory-to-memory architecture
therefore long startup times (~n00 cycles)
very slow scalar unit (~2 MFLOPS)
overall disappointing performance
contracted 1967, announced 1972, delivered 1974
total of 4 machines, 2 Lawrence Livermore Lab
Thornton (CDC) and Fernbach (LLL) loose their jobs
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Photograph courtesy of Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
CDC STAR-100
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Texas Instruments ASC
Advanced Scientific Computer, early 1970s
architecturally similar to CDC STAR-100
7 units sold
TI dropped out of mainframe computer manufacturing after this machine
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Vector Performance I
MFLOP rate (MFLOPS) as function of vector length n
scalar: ~constant (only some loop overhead, then n * loop time)
vector: (n = length of vector)
# cycles = startup + n / nflop_per_cycle
rate/clock = #ops / #cycles ~ n / (startup + n)
half rate at vectorlength n ~ startup
full rate needs n >> startup => “Long Vector Machine”
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Performance vs. Startup, Length
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
0 100 200 300 400 500
vector length
op
s/cl
ock
s10_r1
s100_r1
s10_r4
s100_r4
scalar_0.2
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Vector Performance II
Vector/Scalar Subsections
ALL codes have some scalar (non-vectorizable) sections
total time = (scalar fraction)/(scalar rate) + (vector fraction)/(vector rate)
example: 10% / 1 MFLOPS + 90% / 100 MFLOPS =
100 / (0.1 * 100 + 0.9 * 1) = 9.2 MFLOPS !!!
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Vector Version of Amdahl’s Law
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2
scalar fraction
per
form
ance
r5
r10
r20
r50
r100
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Vector Computer Design Guide
Must have SHORT vector startup => can work with short vectors
Must have FASTEST POSSIBLE scalar unit => can afford scalar sections
irregular data structures ==> need gather, scatter, merge operations (and a few more)
x(i) = a(index(i)) * b(i)
y(index(i)) = c(i) + d(i)
where (a(i) > b(i)) c(i) = d(i)
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Cray Research, Inc.
Founded by Seymour Cray (father of CDC 6600/7600) in 1972 (STAR-100 known)
first Cray-1 delivered in 1976 to Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL)
8 vector registers of 64 elements each
Vector load/store instructions
fastest scalar computer of its time
160 MFLOPS peak rate ( 2 ops/cycle @ 80 MHz), few cycles startup
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Photograph courtesy of Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Seymour Cray
Cray-1
1976
Single Processor
80 MFLOPS
1 Mword = 8 Mbyte
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Block Diagram Cray YMP-EL, only one of four identical CPUs shown, simplified
8 vector registers, 64 elements, 64 bit 4 vector execution units, 33 MHz
Shared
Vi
Main 8 scalar registers, 64 bit scalar functional units
Memory 64 word Tjk
Buffer memory Si128 MW
64 bit 8 address registers, 32 bit address functional units
64 word1 Gbyte Bjk
4 ports/ buffer memory proc Ai
4x 4 x33 MHz= 8 instruction buffers, 32 words each4.2 Gby/sec Y1 channel instruction issue 40 Mbyte/sec
48sharedregisters IOS
Large working set:
- 8 vector registers, 64 words
- 8 scalar registers
- 8 address registers
- large instruction buffer
Performance Features:
- vector processing: one operation affects 64 vector elements, streamed through functional unit
- small vector startup time
- chaining between vector ops
- large, fast semiconductor memory
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Cray Research, Inc. cnt’d
1982 Cray-XMP (Steve Chen improvements, up to 4 processors, shared memory)
1985 Cray-2, 256 Mword memory, 4 processors, immersion cooled
1988 Cray-YMP (last Chen machine)
1991 Cray C90 (up to 16 vector CPUs, shared memory)
1993 Cray T3D (massively parallel Alpha)
one and only Cray-3 delivered to NCAR (Cray Comp Corp)
1994 Cray J90 (up to 32 vector CPUs, shared memory), air cooled
1995 Cray T3E (most successful MPP machine), Cray T90 (parallel vector, immersion cooled)
Cray-4 abandoned (Cray Computer Corporation ch. 11)
1996 acquired by Silicon Graphics
1998 Cray SV1 (parallel vector, air cooled)
1999 acquired by Teradata => Cray, Inc.
2002 Cray X1, parallel vector, immersion spray cooled
2004 Cray X1e, enhanced version of X1
Cray XT3, AMD based 3D Torus massively parallel machine
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CDC Cyber 200 Family
- 1980, enhanced version of STAR-100
- reduced startup time, ~ 50 cycles
- fast scalar unit
- rich instruction repertoire
- still memory-to-memory, 400 MFLOPS peak
- Cyber 203, Cyber 205, ETA-10 [10 GFLOPS]
- vector FORTRAN language extensions provided
- terminated in 1989 since unprofitable
- around 40 Cyber 200, 34 ETA-10 sold
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Minnesota Supercomputer Center
Minneapolis, 1986
Cray-2, CDC Cyber 205
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NEC Japan
- 1983 SX-1 single processor vector 650 MFLOPS
- 1985 SX-2 single processor vector 1300 MFLOPS
- 1990 SX-3 four processors at ~ 5 GFLOPS each, 4 Gbyte = 0.5 Gword memory
- 1995 SX-4 32 processors at ~ 2 GFLOPS each (CMOS; all previous ECL)
- 1998 SX-5 upto 512 processors 8 GFLOPS each
- 2002 SX-6 upto 1024 processors 8 GFLOPS each
- 2004 SX-7 upto 2048 processors 8.8 GFLOPS each
- 2004 SX-8 upto 4096 processors 16 GFLOPS each
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IBM - Sony - Toshiba CELL processor
- 8 vector CPUs + GPU on single chip
- 256 kbyte = 32 kword local storage (very small !!)
- 12 word/cycle internal interconnect = 386 Gbyte/sec
- 24 Gbyte/sec = 3 Gword/sec main memory
- 76 Gbyte/sec = 9.5 Gword/sec communication
- @ 4 GHz clock 256 GFLOPS (32 bit) peak
- 26 GFLOPS (64 bit) peak
- max 4.5 Gbyte addressable, 512 Mbyte implemented
- system interconnect ?
- used within Sony Playstation 3
- Mercury, IBM blades available; 512 Mbyte only
- highly imbalanced for scientific computation
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IBM - Sony - Toshiba CELL processor
- 90 nm SOI, 8 layers Cu interconnect
- 234 M Transistors
- 221 mm² die size
- significant potential in future revisions
- but: 80W @ 1.1V 4.0 GHz is too much
- 180W @ 1.4V 5.6 GHz is much too much
- work needed in power reduction
- larger internal memory
- 64 bit arithmetic improved
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IBM - Sony - Toshiba CELL processor
From: S. Williams et. al., Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- single Cell chip performance
- compared with Cray X1E single vector processor and several commodity microprocessors (AMD, Intel)
- already current version shows impressive speedup, at cost of significant programming complexity (explicit storage moves as opposed to caching)
- slightly enhanced Cell (Cell+) simulation provides very significant additional speedup (more efficient DP)
- current version insufficient for major impact
- future versions may change that, great potential