On-line Analysis of Hardware Performance Events for Workload Characterization and Processor Frequency Scaling Decisions

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Abstract

Energy efficiency optimizations of computational resources continue to be of growing importance for both classical datacenter workloads as well as high performance computing environments. New hardware generations introduce more and more energy efficiency features, resulting in a power consumption variation by at least a factor of four between idle and full load. Even the power consumption of different full-load workloads can vary substantially, clearly showing that there is energy saving potential apart from the traditional “race to idle”. In this paper we present a configurable CPU frequency governor that adapts processor frequencies based on performance counter measurements instead of processor load. We use the SPEC OMP benchmark suite to determine the potential of our approach and present governor configurations for two up-to-date x86 64 microarchitectures. Moreover we show that substantial follow-up work is required to assess further efficiency optimization potential in this field.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelProceeding of the second joint WOSP/SIPEW international conference on Performance engineering
ErscheinungsortNew York, NY, USA
Herausgeber (Verlag)Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York
Seiten481-486
Seitenumfang6
ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-0519-8
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2011
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Konferenz

Titel2nd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
KurztitelICPE 2011
Veranstaltungsnummer2
Dauer14 - 16 März 2011
Webseite
BekanntheitsgradInternationale Veranstaltung
OrtRenaissance Karlsruhe Hotel
StadtKarlsruhe
LandDeutschland

Externe IDs

Scopus 79953872146
ORCID /0000-0002-8491-770X/work/141543301
ORCID /0009-0003-0666-4166/work/151475601

Schlagworte

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

Schlagwörter

  • dvfs, energy efficiency, frequency governor, performance counter