HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2008
IEEE
Designing thermal management policies for today's power-dense server clusters is currently a challenge, since it is difficult to predict the exact temperature and performance...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2008
IEEE
Power control is becoming a key challenge for effectively operating a modern data center. In addition to reducing operating costs, precisely controlling power consumption is an es...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2008
IEEE
Portable, embedded systems place ever-increasing demands on high-performance, low-power microprocessor design. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a well-known techniq...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2008
IEEE
Hard-to-predict branches depending on longlatency cache-misses have been recognized as a major performance obstacle for modern microprocessors. With the widening speed gap between...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2008
IEEE
Interconnection networks-on-chip (NOCs) are rapidly replacing other forms of interconnect in chip multiprocessors and system-on-chip designs. Existing interconnection networks use...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2008
IEEE
Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) attempts to keep a dynamically scheduled processor's resources busy with work from multiple independent threads. Threads with longlatency st...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2008
IEEE
Dynamic binary translation (DBT) is a runtime instrumentation technique commonly used to support profiling, optimization, secure execution, and bug detection tools for application...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper describes a comprehensive approach for using the memory controller to improve DRAM energy efficiency and manage DRAM power. We make three contributions: (1) we describe...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2008
IEEE
Power consumption within the disk-based storage subsystem forms a substantial portion of the overall energy footprint in commodity systems. Researchers have proposed external cach...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2008
IEEE
Estimating the maximum power and thermal characteristics of a processor is essential for designing its power delivery system, packaging, cooling, and power/thermal management sche...