An Energy Efficiency Feature Survey of the Intel Haswell Processor.

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Abstract

The recently introduced Intel Xeon E5-1600 v3 and E5-2600 v3 series processors -- codenamed Haswell-EP -- implement major changes compared to their predecessors. Among these changes are integrated voltage regulators that enable individual voltages and frequencies for every core. In this paper we analyze a number of consequences of this development that are of utmost importance for energy efficiency optimization strategies such as dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) and dynamic concurrency throttling (DCT). This includes the enhanced RAPL implementation and its improved accuracy as it moves from modeling to actual measurement. Another fundamental change is that every clock speed above AVX frequency -- including nominal frequency -- is opportunistic and unreliable, which vastly decreases performance predictability with potential effects on scalability. Moreover, we characterize significantly changed p-state transition behavior, and determine crucial memory performance data.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages896-904
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Peer-reviewedYes

Workshop

Title2015 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops - HPPAC—High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing
Abbreviated titleIPDPSWS-HPPAC 2015
Duration25 - 29 May 2015
Website
Degree of recognitionInternational event
CityHyderabad
CountryIndia

External IDs

Scopus 84962251153
ORCID /0000-0002-8491-770X/work/141543292
ORCID /0000-0001-6967-8707/work/141544818
ORCID /0009-0003-0666-4166/work/151475596
ORCID /0000-0002-5437-3887/work/154740509

Keywords

Sustainable Development Goals