FlashAbacus: A Self-Governing Flash-Based Accelerator for Low-Power Systems

Jie Zhang; Myoungsoo Jung

doi:10.1145/3190508.3190544

FlashAbacus: A Self-Governing Flash-Based Accelerator for Low-Power Systems

Jie Zhang, Myoungsoo Jung

School of Integrated Technology

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Abstract

Energy efficiency and computing flexibility are some of the primary design constraints of heterogeneous computing. In this paper, we present FlashAbacus, a data-processing accelerator that self-governs heterogeneous kernel executions and data storage accesses by integrating many flash modules in lightweight multiprocessors. The proposed accelerator can simultaneously process data from different applications with diverse types of operational functions, and it allows multiple kernels to directly access flash without the assistance of a host-level file system or an I/O runtime library. We prototype FlashAbacus on a multicore-based PCIe platform that connects to FPGA-based flash controllers with a 20 nm node process. The evaluation results show that FlashAbacus can improve the bandwidth of data processing by 127%, while reducing energy consumption by 78.4%, as compared to a conventional method of heterogeneous computing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450355841
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3190508.3190544
Publication status	Published - 2018 Apr 23
Event	13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018 - Porto, Portugal Duration: 2018 Apr 23 → 2018 Apr 26

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Name	Proceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018
Volume	2018-January

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Conference	13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Porto
Period	18/4/23 → 18/4/26

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Funding Information:
This research is mainly supported by NRF 2016R1C1B2015312 and MemRay grant (2015-11- 1731). This work is also supported in part by, DOE DEAC02-05CH 11231, IITP-2017-2017-0-01015, and NRF2015M3C4A7065645. The authors thank Gilles Muller for shepherding this paper. We also thank MemRay Corporation and Texas Instruments for their research sample donation and technical support. Myoungsoo jung is the corresponding author.

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© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.

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Computer Networks and Communications

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Zhang, J & Jung, M 2018, FlashAbacus: A Self-Governing Flash-Based Accelerator for Low-Power Systems. in Proceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018. Proceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018, vol. 2018-January, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018, Porto, Portugal, 18/4/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3190508.3190544

FlashAbacus : A Self-Governing Flash-Based Accelerator for Low-Power Systems. / Zhang, Jie; Jung, Myoungsoo.

Proceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2018. (Proceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018; Vol. 2018-January).

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