Data Criticality in Network-On-Chip Design
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Many network-on-chip (NoC) designs focus on maximizing performance, delivering data to each core no later than needed by the application. Yet to achieve greater energy efficiency, we argue that it is just as important that data is delivered no earlier than needed. To address this, we explore data criticality in CMPs. Caches fetch data in bulk (blocks of multiple words). Depending on the application's memory access patterns, some words are needed right away (critical) while other data are fetched too soon (non-critical). On a wide range of applications, we perform a limit study of the impact of data criticality in NoC design. Criticality-oblivious designs can waste up to 37.5% energy, compared to an idealized NoC that fetches each word both no later and no earlier than needed. Furthermore, 62.3% of energy is wasted fetching data that is not used by the application. We present NoCNoC, a practical, criticality-aware NoC design that achieves up to 60.5% energy savings with no loss in performance. Our work moves towards an ideally-efficient NoC, delivering data both no later and no earlier than needed.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it