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Record W4415285671 · doi:10.1145/3725843.3756031

Symbiotic Task Scheduling and Data Prefetching

2025· article· W4415285671 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

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Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicDistributed and Parallel Computing Systems
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaAlliance de recherche numérique du CanadaConnaught FundUniversity of TorontoFujitsu
KeywordsInstruction prefetchDramScheduling (production processes)Latency (audio)Task (project management)CAS latencyMulti-core processorCache

Abstract

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Task-parallel programming models enable programmers to extract parallelism from irregular applications.Since software-based taskparallel runtimes impose crippling overheads on fine-grain tasks, architects have designed manycores with hardware support for task management.These hardware task-parallel systems can scale challenging workloads to hundreds of cores, but fail to use conventional prefetchers due to short (100-cycle) tasks.Lacking prefetching, they often expose DRAM latency to applications, fumbling the performance gains of hardware.We present the Task-Seeded Prefetcher (TSP) and Memory Response Task Scheduler (MRS), a symbiotic pair that boost performance in general-purpose task-parallel hardware.TSP learns and prefetches the data-access pattern of each task function, seeded with its descriptor that is queued by the task scheduler.MRS augments the baseline task-to-core dispatch policy by using prefetch status from TSP to optimize core utilization.Together, TSP and MRS provide speedups of up to 3.1 (gmeans up to 1.4) across 13 benchmarks on 256-core task-parallel systems that were already 3-60 faster than parallel software.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.969
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0040.006
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.304
Teacher spread0.269 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it