MAGE: Adaptive granularity and ECC for resilient and power efficient memory systems

Sheng Li, Doe Hyun Yoon, Ke Chen, Jishen Zhao, Jung Ho Ahn, Jay B. Brockman, Yuan Xie, Norman P. Jouppi

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Abstract

Resiliency is one of the toughest challenges in highperformance computing, and memory accounts for a significant fraction of errors. Providing strong error tolerance in memory usually requires a wide memory channel that incurs a large access granularity (hence, a large cache line). Unfortunately, applications with limited spatial locality waste memory power and bandwidth on systems with a large access granularity. Thus, careful design considerations must be made to balance memory system performance, power efficiency, and resiliency. In this paper, we propose MAGE, a Memory system with Adaptive Granularity and ECC, to achieve high performance, power efficiency, and resiliency. MAGE can adapt memory access granularities and ECC schemes to applications with different memory behaviors. Our experiments show that MAGE achieves more than a 28% energy-delay product improvement, compared to the best existing systems with static granularity and ECC.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2012
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 24th International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2012 - Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Duration: 10 Nov 201216 Nov 2012

Publication series

NameInternational Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC
ISSN (Print)2167-4329
ISSN (Electronic)2167-4337

Conference

Conference2012 24th International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySalt Lake City, UT
Period10/11/1216/11/12

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