Today and future many-core systems are facing the Utilization Wall and Dark Silicon problems, for which not all the processing engines can be powered at the same time as this will lead to a power consumption higher than the Total Design Power (TDP) budget. Recently, Computational Sprinting approaches addressed the problem by exploiting the intrinsic thermal capacitance of the chip and the properties of common ap- plications, which require intense, but temporary, use of resources. The thermal capacitance, possibly aug- mented with Phase Change Materials, enables the temporary activation of all the resources simultaneously, although they largely exceed the steady-state thermal design power. In this paper we present an innova- tive and low-overhead hierarchical model-predictive controller for managing thermally-safe sprinting with predictable re-sprinting rate, which ensures the correct execution of mixed-criticality tasks. Well-targeted simulations, also based on real workload benchmarks, show the applicability and the effectiveness of our solution.

Guaranteed computational resprinting via model-predictive control

TILLI, ANDREA;BARTOLINI, ANDREA;CACCIARI, MATTEO;BENINI, LUCA
2015

Abstract

Today and future many-core systems are facing the Utilization Wall and Dark Silicon problems, for which not all the processing engines can be powered at the same time as this will lead to a power consumption higher than the Total Design Power (TDP) budget. Recently, Computational Sprinting approaches addressed the problem by exploiting the intrinsic thermal capacitance of the chip and the properties of common ap- plications, which require intense, but temporary, use of resources. The thermal capacitance, possibly aug- mented with Phase Change Materials, enables the temporary activation of all the resources simultaneously, although they largely exceed the steady-state thermal design power. In this paper we present an innova- tive and low-overhead hierarchical model-predictive controller for managing thermally-safe sprinting with predictable re-sprinting rate, which ensures the correct execution of mixed-criticality tasks. Well-targeted simulations, also based on real workload benchmarks, show the applicability and the effectiveness of our solution.
2015
Tilli, Andrea; Bartolini, Andrea; Cacciari, Matteo; Benini, Luca
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