Uncovering Real GPU NoC Characteristics: Implications on Interconnect Architecture
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A critical component of high-throughput processors such as GPUs is the network-on-chip (NoC) that interconnects the large number of cores and the memory partitions together. In this work, we provide a detailed analysis, in terms of latency and bandwidth, of real GPU NoC across several generations of modern NVIDIA GPUs. Our analysis identifies how non-uniform latency exists between the cores and the memory partitions based on their physical location in the GPU. The non-uniformity can result in up to approximately 70 % difference in on-chip latency. In comparison, the bandwidth provided from the cores to the memory partitions is approximately uniform. However, recent GPUs that consist of multiple GPU “partitions” present different on-chip latency and bandwidth characteristics when communicating between the partitions. Based on our analysis of real GPU interconnect, we discuss potential implications including its impact on timing used in side-channel attacks as well as NoC microarchitectures. We show how the non-uniform latency can be exploited in a timing side-channel attack within a GPU as the core location impacts performance (or timing). In addition, proper understanding (and proper assumptions) of GPU NoC is critical to ensure a network that does not bottleneck the overall system performance.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 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.
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