Power, Performance, and Thermal Management for High-Performance Systems

In future high-performance systems it will be essential to balance often-conflicting objectives of performance, power, energy, and temperature under variable workload and environmental conditions. In this work, we describe a goaldriven approach that conveys multiple expectations to managers that dynamically tune operating states to best meet those demands. We show the benefit of a concise goal specification for complex objectives and the feasibility of managing multiple constraints while maintaining high performance and safe operation. We evaluate key features of our approach with a prototype implementation on a Pentium M platform with Red Hat Enterprise 4 that controls voltage and frequency scaling to achieve the desired performance, power and temperature goals.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IPPS
• Authors: Heather Hanson, Stephen W. Keckler, Karthick Rajamani, Soraya Ghiasi, Freeman L. Rawson III, Juan Rubio
• Keywords: Concise Goal Specification, Distributed And Parallel Computing, IPPS 2007, Often-conflicting Objectives, Variable Workload