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Microbenchmarks for GPU characteristics: the occupancy roofline and the pipeline model

Host Publication: PDP 2016

Authors: J. Lemeire, J. G Cornelis and L. Segers

Publisher: IEEE

Publication Date: Feb. 2016

Number of Pages: 8

ISBN: 978-1-4673-8775-0


Abstract:

In this paper we present microbenchmarks in OpenCL to measure the most important performance characteristics of GPUs. Microbenchmarks try to measure individual characteristics that influence the performance. First, performance, in operations or bytes per second, is measured with respect tothe occupancy and as such provides an occupancy roofline curve. The curve shows at which occupancy level peak performance is reached. Second, when considering the cycles per instruction of each compute unit, we measure the two most important characteristics of an instruction: its issue and completion latency. This is based on modeling each compute unit as a pipelinefor computations and a pipeline for the memory access. We also measure some specific characteristics: the influence of independent instructions within a kernel and thread divergence. We argue that these are the most important characteristics for understanding the performance and predicting performance. The results for several Nvidia and AMD GPUs are provided. A free java application containing the microbenchmarks is available on www.gpuperformance.org.

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