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Scalable power control for many-core architectures running multi-threaded applications

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Scalable power control for many-core architectures running multi-threaded applications
Optimizing the performance of a multi-core microprocessor within a power budget has recently received a lot of attention. However, most existing solutions are centralized and cannot scale well with the rapidly increasing level of core integration. While a few recent studies propose power control algorithms for many-core architectures, those solutions assume that the workload of every core is independent and therefore cannot effectively allocate power based on thread criticality to accelerate multi-threaded parallel applications, which are expected to be the primary workloads of many-core architectures. This paper presents a scalable power control solution for many-core microprocessors that is specifically designed to handle realistic workloads, i.e., a mixed group of single-threaded and multi-threaded applications. Our solution features a three-layer design. First, we adopt control theory to precisely control the power of the entire chip to its chip-level budget by adjusting the aggr...
Kai Ma, Xue Li, Ming Chen, Xiaorui Wang
Added 21 Aug 2011
Updated 21 Aug 2011
Type Journal
Year 2011
Where ISCA
Authors Kai Ma, Xue Li, Ming Chen, Xiaorui Wang
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