A Generalized Software System for Accurate and Efficient Management of Application Performance Goals
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Summary, in English
A number of techniques have been proposed to provide run- time performance guarantees while minimizing power consumption. One drawback of existing approaches is that they work only on a fixed set of components (or actuators) that must be specified at design time. If new components become available, these management systems must be redesigned and reimplemented. In this paper, we propose PTRADE, a novel performance management framework that is general with respect to the components it manages. PTRADE can be deployed to work on a new system with different components without redesign and reimplementation. PTRADE’s generality is demonstrated through the management of performance goals for a variety of benchmarks on two different Linux/x86 systems and a simulated 128-core system, each with different components governing power and performance tradeoffs. Our experimental results show that PTRADE provides generality while meeting performance goals and ap- proaching optimal power consumption. PTRADE consumes only 7% more power than optimal on the Linux/x86 systems and 3% more power than optimal on the simulated many-core.
Department/s
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Document type
Conference paper
Topic
- Control Engineering
Conference name
International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT 2013)
Conference date
2013-09-29 - 2013-10-04
Conference place
Montréal, Canada
Status
Inpress
Research group
- LCCC