Publications of Torsten Hoefler

Lukas Gianinazzi, Tal Ben-Nun, Maciej Besta, Saleh Ashkboos, Yves Baumann, Piotr Luczynski, Torsten Hoefler:

The spatial computer: A model for energy-efficient parallel computation

(arXiv:2205.04934. May 2022)

Abstract

We present a new parallel model of computation suitable for spatial architectures, for which the energy used for communication heavily depends on the distance of the communicating processors. In our model, processors have locations on a conceptual two-dimensional grid, and their distance therein determines their communication cost. In particular, we introduce the energy cost of a spatial computation, which measures the total distance traveled by all messages, and study the depth of communication, which measures the largest number of hops of a chain of messages. We show matching energy lower- and upper bounds for many foundational problems, including sorting, median selection, and matrix multiplication. Our model does not depend on any parameters other than the input shape and size, simplifying algorithm analysis. We also show how to simulate PRAM algorithms in our model and how to obtain results for a more complex model that introduces the size of the local memories of the processors as a parameter.

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@article{gianinazzi2022spatial,
  author={Lukas Gianinazzi and Tal Ben-Nun and Maciej Besta and Saleh Ashkboos and Yves Baumann and Piotr Luczynski and Torsten Hoefler},
  title={{The spatial computer: A model for energy-efficient parallel computation}},
  journal={arXiv:2205.04934},
  year={2022},
  month={May},
  source={http://www.unixer.de/~htor/publications/},
}


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