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NERO: a Near High-Bandwidth Memory Stencil Accelerator for Weather Prediction Modeling NERO: A Near High-Bandwidth Memory Stencil Accelerator for Weather Prediction Modeling Gagandeep Singha,b,c Dionysios Diamantopoulosc Christoph Hagleitnerc Juan Gómez-Lunab Sander Stuijka Onur Mutlub Henk Corporaala aEindhoven University of Technology bETH Zürich cIBM Research Europe, Zurich Ongoing climate change calls for fast and accurate weather of the data access patterns and algorithmic complexity of the and climate modeling. However, when solving large-scale entire COSMO model. They are similar to the kernels used weather prediction simulations, state-of-the-art CPU and GPU in other weather and climate models [60, 79, 107]. Their per- implementations suer from limited performance and high en- formance is dominated by memory-bound operations with ergy consumption. These implementations are dominated by unique irregular memory access patterns and low arithmetic complex irregular memory access patterns and low arithmetic intensity that often results in <10% sustained oating-point intensity that pose fundamental challenges to acceleration. To performance on current CPU-based systems [99]. overcome these challenges, we propose and evaluate the use of Figure 1 shows the rooine plot [104] for an IBM 16- near-memory acceleration using a recongurable fabric with core POWER9 CPU (IC922).1 After optimizing the vadvc high-bandwidth memory (HBM). We focus on compound sten- and hdiff kernels for the POWER architecture by follow- cils that are fundamental kernels in weather prediction models. ing the approach in [105], they achieve 29.1 GFLOP/s and By using high-level synthesis techniques, we develop NERO, an 58.5 GFLOP/s, respectively, for 64 threads. Our rooine anal- FPGA+HBM-based accelerator connected through IBM CAPI2 ysis indicates that these kernels are constrained by the host (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface) to an IBM POWER9 DRAM bandwidth. Their low arithmetic intensity limits their host system. Our experimental results show that NERO out- performance, which is one order of magnitude smaller than performs a 16-core POWER9 system by 4.2× and 8.3× when the peak performance, and results in a fundamental memory running two dierent compound stencil kernels. NERO reduces bottleneck that standard CPU-based optimization techniques the energy consumption by 22× and 29× for the same two cannot overcome. kernels over the POWER9 system with an energy eciency of Roofline for POWER9 (16-core, SMT4) & [AD9V3,AD9H7] FPGAs 1.5 GFLOPS/Watt and 17.3 GFLOPS/Watt. We conclude that 104 employing near-memory acceleration solutions for weather pre- AD9H7 FPGA (3.6 TFLOP/s, 410GBps HBM, 7.26 TBps BRAM, 400MHz) diction modeling is promising as a means to achieve both high AD9V3 FPGA (0.97 TFLOP/s, 32GBps DRAM, 1.62 TBps BRAM, 200MHz) performance and high energy eciency. 103 486.4 GFLOP/s/socket (3.8GHz x 16 cores x 8 flops/cycle) 1. Introduction Attainable performance is constra- ined by memory bandwidth, as Accurate weather prediction using detailed weather mod- 3-cache CPU micro-architecture features 102 L become ineffective for a given els is essential to make weather-dependent decisions in a (208.57)x16=3337GBps 58.5GFlop/s arithmetic intensity and access timely manner. The Consortium for Small-Scale Modeling patterns do not favor the memory hierarchy. DRAM (COSMO) [38] built one such weather model to meet the 110GBps29.1GFlop/s experimental BW on STREAM hdiff (P9 64 threads) hdiff (P9 1 thread) high-resolution forecasting requirements of weather services. 101 vadvc (P9 64 threads) 5.13GFlop/s The COSMO model is a non-hydrostatic atmospheric pre- vadvc (P9 1 thread) 3.3GFlop/s diction model currently being used by a dozen nations for Performance [GFlop/sec] Attainable Arithmetic Intensity for hdiff Arithmetic Intensity for vadvc meteorological purposes and research applications. 100 The central part of the COSMO model (called dynamical 10-1 100 101 102 Arithmetic Intensity [flop/byte] core or dycore) solves the Euler equations on a curvilinear grid and applies implicit discretization (i.e., parameters are Figure 1: Rooine [104] for POWER9 (1-socket) showing ver- tical advection (vadvc) and horizontal diusion (hdiff) ker- dependent on each other at the same time instance [26]) in the nels for single-thread and 64-thread implementations. The vertical dimension and explicit discretization (i.e., a solution is plot shows also the rooines of the FPGAs used in our work. dependent on the previous system state [26]) in the horizontal dimension. The use of dierent discretizations leads to three In this work, our goal is to overcome the memory bot- computational patterns [96]: 1) horizontal stencils, 2) tridi- tleneck of weather prediction kernels by exploiting near- agonal solvers in the vertical dimension, and 3) point-wise memory computation capability on FPGA accelerators with computation. These computational kernels are compound high-bandwidth memory (HBM) [5,65,66] that are attached stencil kernels that operate on a three-dimensional grid [48]. Vertical advection (vadvc) and horizontal diusion (hdiff) are 1IBM and POWER9 are registered trademarks or common law marks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many jurisdictions such compound kernels found in the dycore of the COSMO worldwide. Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM weather prediction model. These kernels are representative or other companies. 1 to the host CPU. Figure 1 shows the rooine models of the • We evaluate the performance and energy consumption of two FPGA cards (AD9V3 [2] and AD9H7 [1]) used in this our accelerator and perform a scalability analysis. We show work. FPGAs can handle irregular memory access patterns that an FPGA+HBM-based design outperforms a complete eciently and oer signicantly higher memory bandwidth 16-core POWER9 system(running 64 threads) by 4.2 × for than the host CPU with their on-chip URAMs (UltraRAM), the vertical advection( vadvc) and 8.3× for the horizontal BRAMs (block RAM), and o-chip HBM (high-bandwidth diusion( hdiff) kernels with energy reductions of 22× memory for the AD9H7 card). However, taking full advan- and 29×, respectively. Our design provides an energy e- tage of FPGAs for accelerating a workload is not a trivial ciency of 1.5 GLOPS/Watt and 17.3 GFLOPS/Watt for vadvc task. To compensate for the higher clock frequency of the and hdiff kernels, respectively. baseline CPUs, our FPGAs must exploit at least one order 2. Background of magnitude more parallelism in a target workload. This In this section, we rst provide an overview of the vadvc is challenging, as it requires sucient FPGA programming and hdiff compound stencils, which represent a large frac- skills to map the workload and optimize the design for the tion of the overall computational load of the COSMO weather FPGA microarchitecture. prediction model. Second, we introduce the CAPI SNAP Modern FPGA boards deploy new cache-coherent inter- (Storage, Network, and Analytics Programming) framework2 connects, such as IBM CAPI [93], Cache Coherent Intercon- that we use to connect our NERO accelerator to an IBM nect for Accelerators (CCIX) [24], and Compute Express Link POWER9 system. (CXL) [88], which allow tight integration of FPGAs with CPUs 2.1. Representative COSMO Stencils at high bidirectional bandwidth(on the order of tens of GB/s). A stencil operation updates values in a structured multidi- However, memory-bound applications on FPGAs are limited mensional grid based on the values of a xed local neighbor- by the relatively low DDR4 bandwidth (72 GB/s for four in- hood of grid points. Vertical advection (vadvc) and horizon- dependent dual-rank DIMM interfaces [11]). To overcome tal diusion (hdiff) from the COSMO model are two such this limitation, FPGA vendors have started oering devices compound stencil kernels, which represent the typical code equipped with HBM [6,7,12,66] with a theoretical peak band- patterns found in the dycore of COSMO. Algorithm 1 shows width of 410 GB/s. HBM-equipped FPGAs have the potential the pseudo-code for vadvc and hdiff kernels. The horizontal to reduce the memory bandwidth bottleneck, but a study of diusion kernel iterates over a 3D grid performing Laplacian their advantages for real-world memory-bound applications and ux to calculate dierent grid points. Vertical advection is still missing. has a higher degree of complexity since it uses the Thomas We aim to answer the following research question: algorithm [97] to solve a tri-diagonal matrix of the velocity Can FPGA-based accelerators with HBM mitigate the eld along the vertical axis. Unlike the conventional stencil performance bottleneck of memory-bound compound kernels, vertical advection has dependencies in the vertical weather prediction kernels in an energy ecient way? direction, which leads to limited available parallelism. As an answer to this question, we present NERO, a near-HBM Such compound kernels are dominated by memory-bound accelerator for weather prediction. We design and imple- operations with complex memory access patterns and low ment NERO on an FPGA with HBM to optimize two kernels arithmetic intensity. This poses a fundamental challenge to (vertical advection and horizontal diusion), which notably acceleration. CPU implementations of these kernels [105] represent the spectrum of computational diversity found in suer from limited data locality and inecient memory usage, the COSMO weather prediction application. We co-design a as our rooine analysis in Figure 1 exposes. hardware-software framework and provide an optimized API 2.2. CAPI SNAP Framework to interface eciently with the rest of the COSMO model, The OpenPOWER Foundation Accelerator Workgroup [8] which runs on the CPU. Our FPGA-based solution for hdiff created the CAPI SNAP framework, an open-source envi- vadvc × and leads to performance improvements of 4.2 and ronment for FPGA programming productivity. CAPI SNAP × × × 8.3 and energy reductions of 22 and 29 , respectively, provides two key benets [103]: (i) it enables an improved with respect to optimized CPU implementations [105].
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