Document Type
Working Paper
Date
1998
Keywords
spatial locality, data layout optimization, array layouts, spatial reuse vectors
Language
English
Disciplines
Computer Engineering
Description/Abstract
This paper aims to improve locality of references by suitably choosing array layouts. We use a new definition of spatial reuse vectors that takes into account memory layout of arrays. This capability creates two opportunities. First, it allows us to develop an array restructuring framework based on a combination of hyperplane theory and reuse vectors. Second, it allows us to observe the effect of different array layout optimizations on spatial reuse vectors. Since the iteration space based locality optimizations also change the spatial reuse vectors, our approach allows us to compare the iteration-space based and data-space based approaches in terms of their effects on spatial reuse vectors. We illustrate the effectiveness of our technique using an example from the BLAS library on the SGI Origin distributed shared-memory machine.
Recommended Citation
Kandemir, Mahmut; Choudhary, Alok; Ramanujam, J.; and Shenoy, N., "Enhancing spatial locality via data layout optimizations" (1998). Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship. 20.
https://surface.syr.edu/eecs/20
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