Title:
Energy Introspector: Coordinated Architecture-Level Simulation of Processor Physics

dc.contributor.author Song, William J.
dc.contributor.author Mukhopadhyay, Saibal
dc.contributor.author Rodrigues, Arun
dc.contributor.author Yalamanchili, Sudhakar
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename Sandia National Laboratories en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2015-06-09T14:37:12Z
dc.date.available 2015-06-09T14:37:12Z
dc.date.issued 2013
dc.description.abstract Increased power and heat dissipation in microprocessors impose limitations on performance scaling. Power and thermal management techniques coupled with workload dynamics cause increasing spatiotemporal variations in electrical and thermal stresses. The coupling between various physical phenomena (e.g., power, temperature, reliability, delay) will be critical to microarchitectural operations in future processors. Thus, we need modeling tools to enable the exploration of such physical interactions and drive development of microarchitectural solutions. This paper introduces a novel framework, Energy Introspector (EI), for the coordinated simulation of microarchitecture and physics models. The EI framework features flexible modeling of processor component hierarchy that enables simulating different microarchitecture and package designs. The proposed framework uses standardized interface to drive different implementations of physics models and captures their interactions. The EI supports parallel computation of models in anticipation of large-scale simulations (e.g., high core-count processors). We present a case study using the EI framework to assess reliability and performance tradeoffs with a full-system cycle-level simulation of an asymmetric chip multiprocessor (ACMP). en_US
dc.embargo.terms null en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53624
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries CERCS ; GIT-CERCS-09-05 en_US
dc.subject Asymmetric chip multiprocessor en_US
dc.subject Energy introspector en_US
dc.subject Microarchitectural operations en_US
dc.subject Parallel execution en_US
dc.subject Performance en_US
dc.subject Reliability en_US
dc.title Energy Introspector: Coordinated Architecture-Level Simulation of Processor Physics en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Technical Report
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local.contributor.author Mukhopadhyay, Saibal
local.contributor.corporatename Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems
local.relation.ispartofseries CERCS Technical Report Series
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