Evaluating the Energy Measurements of the IBM POWER9 On-Chip Controller
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Beitragende
Abstract
Dependable power measurements are the backbone of energy-efficient computing systems. The IBM PowerNV platform offers such power measurements through an embedded PowerPC 405 processor: The On-Chip Controller (OCC). Among other system-control tasks, the OCC provides power measurements for several domains, such as system, CPU, and GPU. This paper provides a detailed description and an in-depth evaluation of these OCC-provided power measurements. For that, we describe the provided interfaces themselves and experimentally verify their overhead (3.6 µs to 10.8 µs per access) and readout rate (24.95 Sa/s). We also study the consistency of the reported sensor readouts across the measurement domains and compare it to externally measured data. Furthermore, we estimate the internal sampling rate (1996 Sa/s) by provoking aliasing errors with artificial workloads, and quantify the errors that such aliasing could introduce in practice (for power consumption of processors 12% in our experimental worst-case scenario). Given these insights, practitioners using the IBM PowerNV platform can assess the quality of the embedded measurements, permitting sought-after energy efficiency improvements.
Details
Originalsprache | Englisch |
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Titel | ICPE '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering |
Erscheinungsort | New York, NY, USA |
Herausgeber (Verlag) | Association for Computing Machinery |
Seiten | 67–76 |
Seitenumfang | 10 |
ISBN (elektronisch) | 979-8-4007-0068-2 |
ISBN (Print) | 979-8-4007-0068-2 |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 15 Apr. 2023 |
Peer-Review-Status | Ja |
Publikationsreihe
Reihe | ICPE: ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering |
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Externe IDs
unpaywall | 10.1145/3578244.3583729 |
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Scopus | 85158099806 |
ORCID | /0000-0002-5437-3887/work/154740528 |
Schlagworte
Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Schlagwörter
- energy efficiency, on-chip controller, power measurements, POWER9