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Process variation aware thread mapping for Chip Multiprocessors

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Process variation aware thread mapping for Chip Multiprocessors
Abstract—With the increasing scaling of manufacturing technology, process variation is a phenomenon that has become more prevalent. As a result, in the context of Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs) for example, it is possible that identically-designed processor cores on the chip have non-identical peak frequencies and power consumptions. To cope with such a design, each processor can be assumed to run at the frequency of the slowest processor, resulting in wasted computational capability. This paper considers an alternate approach and proposes an algorithm that intelligently maps (and remaps) computations onto available processors so that each processor runs at its peak frequency. In other words, by dynamically changing the thread-to-processor mapping at runtime, our approach allows each processor to maximize its performance, rather than simply using chip-wide lowest frequency amongst all cores and highest cache latency. Experimental evidence shows that, as compared to a process variation a...
Shengyan Hong, Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan, Mahmut
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Year 2009
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Authors Shengyan Hong, Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Ozcan Ozturk
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