Cache design trade-offs for power and performance optimization: a case study
ISLPED '95 Proceedings of the 1995 international symposium on Low power design
An object code compression approach to embedded processors
ISLPED '97 Proceedings of the 1997 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Power considerations in the design of the Alpha 21264 microprocessor
DAC '98 Proceedings of the 35th annual Design Automation Conference
Monitoring system activity for OS-directed dynamic power management
ISLPED '98 Proceedings of the 1998 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Selective instruction compression for memory energy reduction in embedded systems
ISLPED '99 Proceedings of the 1999 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Energy-aware adaptation for mobile applications
Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Code compression for low power embedded system design
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Design Automation Conference
Operating-system directed power reduction
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Optimization of high-performance superscalar architectures for energy efficiency
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Dynamic zero compression for cache energy reduction
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Impact of Data Compression on Energy Consumption of Wireless-Networked Handheld Devices
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DRPM: dynamic speed control for power management in server class disks
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Energy conservation techniques for disk array-based servers
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A Quantitative analysis of disk drive power management in portable computers
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Thwarting the power-hungry disk
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Leakage energy reduction in cache memory by data compression
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Data compression has been claimed to be an attractive solution to save energy consumption in high-end servers and data centers. However, there has not been a study to explore this. In this paper, we present a comprehensive evaluation of energy consumption for various file compression techniques implemented in software. We apply various compression tools available on Linux to a variety of data files, and we try them on server class and workstation class systems. We compare their energy and performance results against raw reads and writes. Our results reveal that software based data compression cannot be considered as a universal solution to reduce energy consumption. Various factors like the type of the data file, the compression tool being used, the read-to-write ratio of the workload, and the hardware configuration of the system impact the efficacy of this technique. In some cases, however, we found compression to save substantial energy and improve performance.