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PASCAL Model Enhances Cache Efficiency for Parallel Scans in AI Chips

PASCAL is a phase-aware shared-cache model designed to optimize data reuse in AI accelerators and GPGPUs during parallel scan operations. It targets common patterns like attention and GEMM where multiple cores access shared data blocks concurrently.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-09-09T17:48:51+00:00 Detected 2026-09-10T05:22:35+00:00
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PASCAL is a phase-aware shared-cache model designed to optimize data reuse in AI accelerators and GPGPUs during parallel scan operations. It targets common patterns like attention and GEMM where multiple cores access shared data blocks concurrently.

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In modern AI Accelerators and GPGPUs, many concurrent cores repeatedly access the same shared data. This pattern occurs in attention, where different query tiles share the same K/V block, GEMM, where every tile in a row reads the same panel, and many other operators. We name this pattern parallel scan. Due to a...

Improving cache efficiency in AI chips can significantly boost performance for workloads involving repeated data access, such as attention mechanisms and matrix multiplications. This model addresses a key bottleneck in parallel processing by better capturing data reuse.

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