Performance evaluation of two emerging media processors: VIRAM and imagine
This work presents two emerging media microprocessors, VIRAM and Imagine, and compares the implementation strategies and performance results of these unique architectures. VIRAM is a complete system on a chip which uses PIM technology to combine vector processing with embedded DRAM. Imagine is a programmable streaming architecture with a specialized memory hierarchy designed for computationally intensive data-parallel codes. First, we present a simple and effective approach for understanding and optimizing vector/stream applications. Performance results are then presented from a number of multimedia benchmarks and a computationally intensive scientific kernel. We explore the complex interact ions between programming paradigms, the architectural support at the ISA lever and the underlying microarchitecture of these two systems. Our long term goal is to evaluate leading media microprocessors as possible building blocks for future high performance systems.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 825128
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-53116; R&D Project: 365972; TRN: US200419%%625
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Image Processing, Video Processing, and Multimedia (PDIVM), Nice (FR), 04/2003; Other Information: PBD: 1 Jan 2003
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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