Energy-efficient task scheduling is a fundamental issue in many application domains, such as energy conservation for mobile devices and the operation of green computing data centers. Modern processors support dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) on a per-core basis, i.e., the CPU can adjust the voltage or frequency of each core. As a result, the core in a processor may have different co...

Spiliopoulos, V. 2016. Improving Energy-Efficiency of Multicores using First-Order Modeling. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1404. 52 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9652-4. In the recent decades, power consumption has evolved to one of the most critical resources in a computer system. In the form o...

The ability to cap peak power consumption is a desirable feature in modern data centers for energy budgeting, cost management, and efficient power delivery. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a traditional control knob in the tradeoff between server power and performance. Multi-core processors and the parallel applications that take advantage of them introduce new possibilities for...

Integrated voltage regulators with a wide output current/voltage dynamic range are required to support fast dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS). Low Dropout Regulators (LDOs) based on digital-intensive circuits have been gaining popularity [1]–[4] due to their compactness, process scalability, high immunity to process-voltage-temperature (PVT) variations and easy programmability for de...

Graphics processing units (GPUs) provide significant improvements in performance and performance-perwatt as compared to traditional multicore CPUs. This energy-efficiency of GPUs has facilitated the use of GPUs in many application domains. Albeit energy efficient, GPUs consume non-trivial power independently of CPUs. Therefore, we need to analyze the power and performance characteristic of GPUs...

This paper addresses the energy minimization issue when executing real-time applications that have stringent reliability and deadline requirements. To guarantee the satisfaction of the application’s reliability and deadline requirements, checkpointing, Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) and backward fault recovery techniques are used. We formally prove that if using backward fault recover...

Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) has been widely used to manage energy in real-time embedded systems. However, it was recently shown that DVFS has direct and adverse effects on system reliability. In this work, we investigate static and dynamic reliabilityaware energy management schemes to minimize energy consumption for periodic real-time systems while preserving system reliability...

We present Continuously Adaptive Dynamic Voltage-Frequency Scaling in Linux systems running on Intel i7 and AMD Phenom II processors. By exploiting slack, inherent in memory-bound programs, our approach aims to improve power efficiency even when the processor does not sit idle. Our underlying methodology is based on a simple first-order processor performance model in which frequency scaling is ...

With the increase in the peak performance of modern computing platforms, their energy consumption grows as well, which may lead to overwhelming operating costs and failure rates. Techniques, such as Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (called DVFS) and CPU Clock Modulation (called throttling) are often used to reduce the power consumption of the compute nodes. However, these techniques should...