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The 4th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC'05)
A Compiler-Directed Energy Saving Strategy for Parallelizing Applications in On-Chip Multiprocessors
Universit? of Lille 1, France
July 04-July 06
ISBN: 0-7695-2434-6
Juan Chen, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Yong Dong, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Xue-jun Yang, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Dan Wu, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
As energy consumption becoming one of the key optimization objects in on-chip multiprocessor, compiling a parallelizing application combined with energy saving strategy is more significant. In this paper, we focus on an on-chip multiprocessors architecture, where each processor in on-chip multiprocessor can independently adjust its frequency and voltage for energy savings. Given an arrayintensive application, we simulate parallelizing application and analyze probable load imbalance; then our energy saving strategy determines each processor?s clock frequency and voltage level fit for each parallel fragment in terms of load imbalance. Here, parallel fragments mainly denote parallel loop nests. Further, we consider the serial code fragments as a severe load-unbalanced parallel partitioning when the redundant processors can be shut down. Initial experiment proves our energy saving strategy is successful in reducing the energy consumption of the parallel programs.
Citation:
Juan Chen, Yong Dong, Xue-jun Yang, Dan Wu, "A Compiler-Directed Energy Saving Strategy for Parallelizing Applications in On-Chip Multiprocessors," ispdc, pp.147-154, The 4th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC'05), 2005
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