Title
Thermal-Aware Design and Management for Search-based In-Memory Acceleration
Abstract
Recently, Processing-In-Memory (PIM) techniques exploiting resistive RAM (ReRAM) have been used to accelerate various big data applications. ReRAM-based in-memory search is a powerful operation which efficiently finds required data in a large data set. However, such operations result in a large amount of current which may create serious thermal issues, especially in state-of-the-art 3D stacking chips. Therefore, designing PIM accelerators based on in-memory searches requires a careful consideration of temperature. In this work, we propose static and dynamic techniques to optimize the thermal behavior of PIM architectures running intensive in-memory search operations. Our experiments show the proposed design significantly reduces the peak chip temperature and dynamic management overhead. We test our proposed design in two important categories of applications which benefit from the search-based PIM acceleration - hyper-dimensional computing and database query. Validated experiments show that the proposed method can reduce the steady-state temperature by at least 15.3 °C which extends the lifetime of the ReRAM device by 57.2% on average. Furthermore, the proposed fine-grained dynamic thermal management provides 17.6% performance improvement over state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3316781.3317923
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation Conference 2019
Field
DocType
ISBN
Thermal,Computer science,Electronic engineering,Chip,Emerging technologies,Acceleration,Big data,Embedded system,Resistive random-access memory,Performance improvement,Stacking
Conference
978-1-4503-6725-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Minxuan Zhou1204.00
Mohsen Imani234148.13
Saransh Gupta310111.58
Tajana Simunic43198266.23