Evaluating design tradeoffs in on-chip power management for CMPs

  • Authors:
  • Joseph Sharkey;Alper Buyuktosunoglu;Pradip Bose

  • Affiliations:
  • Assured Information Security: Inc.;IBM TJ Watson Research Center;IBM TJ Watson Research Center

  • Venue:
  • ISLPED '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In light of the recent shift towards multi-core processor designs, dynamic power-management techniques that were designed for single-core microprocessors must be augmented with larger chip-level control. In this paper, we explore the design-tradeoffs associated with CMP power management solutions in a full-system simulation environment. We show that global power management solutions outperform solutions that locally manage power per-core. We then show that global power management is most effective at finer granularities that allow it to adapt to changing workload behavior and thus conclude that on-chip hardware solutions for CMP power management are an important consideration for future CMP microprocessors.