Co-Managing Quality-Performance-Power Tradeoffs

Project Description

Co-Managing Quality-Performance-Power Tradeoffs

Participants:

• M. J. Irwin, K. Malkowski and P. Raghavan (Pennsylvania State University).
• L. C. McInnes, and B. Norris (Argonne National Laboratory).

Background Papers and References

• System Simulators/Emulators
  • SimpleScalar - cycle accurate CPU simulator
  • WATTCH - cycle accurate CPU simulator capable of modeling power consumption
    • WATTCH paper
    • WATTCH download
  • CACTI - Cache modeler
  • Simple Power - CPU power modeler developed at Penn State University
  • Orion - Power aware router modeling software
    • Orion website
    • Orion paper
  • PopNet - Power aware router simulator, capable of producing cycle accurate power estimates from communication traces
• Information about BlueGene/L system
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Outside papers and presentations:
    • Obtaining Hardware Performance Metrics for the BlueGene/L Supercomputer - P. Mindlin, J. Brunheroto, L. DeRose, J. Moreira
    • Full Circle: Simulating Linux Clusters on Linux Clusters - L. Ceze, K. Strauss, G. Almasi, P. Bohrer, J. Brunheroto, C. Cascaval J. Castanos, D. Lieber, X. Martorell, J. Moreira, A. Sanomiya, E. Schenfeld
    • An Overview of the BlueGene/L System Software Organization - G. Almasi, R. Bellofatto, J. Brunheroto, C. Cascaval, J. Castanos, L. Ceze, P. Crumley, C. Erway, J. Gagliano, D. Lieber, X. Martorell, J. Moreira, A. Sanomiya, K. Strauss
    • BlueGene/L the next generation of scalable supercomputer - presentation

Link to Dr. Irwin's lectures from Energy-Efficient Design Course

• Energy-Efficient Design Course (scroll to bottom of the page for notes)

Papers written

• Reducing Power with Performance Constraints for Parallel Sparse Applications , G. Chen, K. Malkowski, M. Kandemir, and P. Raghavan, submitted to the International Parallel and Distributed Symposium, IPDPS05

Meeting notes

• Phone Meeting on 11/04/2004 - Discussion of near term papers
• Phone Meeting on 10/28/2004 - Discussion of short term research goals of the project.
• Meeting on 10/14/2004 - Introduction to BlueGene/L architecture, and overview of simulators/emulators that could be used in our project for modeling performance and power consumption of BlueGene components during Scientific Computations.
• Meeting on 10/08/2004 - Summary of PxP project kickoff meeting on 10/08/04 at GHC2004
• The Task of the Referee - Alan Jay Smith, UC Berkeley - Guide for reviewing papers.

[HOME]

Page maintained by Konrad Malkowski