Optimizing stream organization to improve the performance of scientific computing applications on the stream processor

Abstract

It is very important to organize streams well to make stream programs take advantage of the parallel computing and memory system of the stream processor effectively, especially for scientific stream programs. In this paper, after analyzing typical scientific programs, we present and characterize two methods to optimize the stream organization: stream reusing and stream transpose. Several representative scientific stream programs with and without our optimization are performed on a stream typical processor simulator. Simulation results show that these methods can improve scientific stream program performance greatly. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.