Title
An application-adaptive data allocation method for multi-channel memory
Abstract
Modern memory systems are equipped with multiple channels to achieve a higher memory bandwidth. Since the multi-channel memory system focuses on achieving a high memory bandwidth, data are allocated to all the channels. Hence, when the memory system is accessed, all the channels are activated until the next DRAM refresh starts. Therefore, when executing compute-intensive applications that do not need a full memory bandwidth, the memory modules just waste power because of an unnecessary activation. To overcome this problem, this paper proposes a data allocation method, which controls the number of accessed channels for reducing energy consumption according to applications' demands for the memory bandwidth. The evaluation results show that the proposed method reduces the energy consumption by up to 10.4%, and 5.3% on average without degrading the performances.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/CoolChips.2017.7946381
2017 IEEE Symposium in Low-Power and High-Speed Chips (COOL CHIPS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
energy consumption,main memory systems,multi-channel memory systems
Sense amplifier,Registered memory,Interleaved memory,Semiconductor memory,Computer science,Memory management,Computer hardware,Flat memory model,Computer memory,Memory refresh
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2473-4683
978-1-5386-3829-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takuya Toyoshima100.34
Masayuki Sato2129.40
Ryusuke Egawa310928.68
Hiroaki Kobayashi411.12