Challenges and Opportunities for Extremely Energy-Efficient Processors

  • Authors:
  • Trevor Mudge;Urs Holzle

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Michigan;Google

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this point-counterpoint discussion, Trevor Mudge argues for the combination of near-threshold voltage processors with techniques such as boosting to address the needs of datacenter workloads. Urs Hölzle offers a cautionary note on the wisdom of giving up too much single-threaded performance to achieve energy-efficiency in large Internet service applications.