Design of a Hybrid Memory System for General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units
Metadata Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.advisor | Yu, Weikuan | |
dc.contributor.author | Carpenter, Patrick | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-04-27T12:36:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-04-27T12:36:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-04-27 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10415/3049 | |
dc.description.abstract | Addressing a limited power budget is a prerequisite for maintaining the growth of computer system performance into and beyond the exascale. Two technologies with the potential to help solve this problem include general-purpose programming on graphics processors and fast non-volatile memories. Combining these technologies could yield devices capable of extreme-scale computation at lower power. The goal of this project is to design a simulator supporting a hybrid memory system, containing both dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and phase-change random-access memory (PCRAM), to replace the graphics global memory. Because of the proprietary nature of graphics hardware and the relative immaturity of phase-change memory, it is necessary to develop an appropriate simulation framework to conduct further research. In this work, GPGPU-Sim and a modified version of DRAMSim2 are combined in the design of a hybrid simulator named GPUHM-Sim. The design, implementation and validation of GPUHM-Sim are the primary contributions of this work. | en_US |
dc.rights | EMBARGO_NOT_AUBURN | en_US |
dc.subject | Computer Science | en_US |
dc.title | Design of a Hybrid Memory System for General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.embargo.length | NO_RESTRICTION | en_US |
dc.embargo.status | NOT_EMBARGOED | en_US |