Multi-core architectures are a promising paradigm to exploit the huge integration density reached by high-performance systems. Indeed, integration density and technology scaling are causing undesirable operating temperatures, having net impact on reduced reliability and increased cooling costs. Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) approaches have been proposed in literature to control temperature profile at run-time, while design-time approaches generally provide floorplan-driven solutions to cope with temperature constraints. Nevertheless, a suitable approach to collect performance, thermal and reliability metrics has not been proposed, yet. This work presents a novel methodology to jointly optimize temperature/performance trade-off in reliable high-performance parallel architectures with security constraints achieved by workload physical isolation on each core. The proposed methodology is based on a linear formal model relating temperature and duty-cycle on one side, and performance and duty-cycle on the other side. Extensive experimental results on real-world use-case scenarios show the goodness of the proposed model, suitable for design-time system-wide optimization to be used in conjunction with DTM techniques

Thermal/performance trade-off in network-on-chip architectures

ZONI, DAVIDE;CORBETTA, SIMONE;FORNACIARI, WILLIAM
2012-01-01

Abstract

Multi-core architectures are a promising paradigm to exploit the huge integration density reached by high-performance systems. Indeed, integration density and technology scaling are causing undesirable operating temperatures, having net impact on reduced reliability and increased cooling costs. Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) approaches have been proposed in literature to control temperature profile at run-time, while design-time approaches generally provide floorplan-driven solutions to cope with temperature constraints. Nevertheless, a suitable approach to collect performance, thermal and reliability metrics has not been proposed, yet. This work presents a novel methodology to jointly optimize temperature/performance trade-off in reliable high-performance parallel architectures with security constraints achieved by workload physical isolation on each core. The proposed methodology is based on a linear formal model relating temperature and duty-cycle on one side, and performance and duty-cycle on the other side. Extensive experimental results on real-world use-case scenarios show the goodness of the proposed model, suitable for design-time system-wide optimization to be used in conjunction with DTM techniques
2012
System on Chip (SoC), 2012 International Symposium on
978-146732895-1
multiprocessing systems;network-on-chip;performance evaluation;thermal analysis;dynamic thermal management;integration density;multicore architectures;network-on-chip architectures;reliability metrics;technology scaling;thermal metrics;thermal-performance trade-off;Clocks;Mathematical model;Multicore processing;Optimization;Program processors;Thermal management;Tiles
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