M2M: A Fine-Grained Mapping Framework to Accelerate Multiple DNNs on a Multi-Chiplet Architecture

With the advancement of artificial intelligence, the collaboration of multiple deep neural networks (DNNs) has been crucial to existing embedded systems and cloud systems, especially for automatic driving applications as well as augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications. To trade off between cost and performance, chiplet-based DNN accelerators have emerged as a promising solution for accelerating DNN workloads. However, most existing mapping methods for multiple DNNs target for the monolithic chip, which fail to solve the problems faced by the emerging multi-chiplet architecture, such as the problems of distributed memory access, complex heterogeneous interconnect network, and the scaling-up of computing resources. In this work, we propose M2M, a fine-grained mapping framework for accelerating multiple DNNs on a multi-chiplet architecture. It includes a temporal and spatial task scheduling for reconfigurable dataflow accelerators and a communication-aware task mapping in a heterogeneous interconnect network. To enhance communication efficiency and reduce the overall latency, we further propose a fine-tuned quality-of-service (QoS) policy for network-on-package (NoP) links. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first fine-grained mapping framework for multiple DNNs on a multi-chiplet architecture. We implemented the proposed fine-grained mapping framework using genetic algorithm and simulated annealing algorithm. Experimental results show that our work achieves 7.18%–61.09% latency reduction under vision, language, and mixed workloads when compared with the state-of-the-art related work.