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The management of the energy consumption and thermal dissipation of multi-core heterogeneous platforms is becoming increasingly important as it can have direct impact on the platform performance. This paper discusses an approach that…
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We consider the question: Is it possible to measure two temperatures simultaneously using a single thermometer? Under common circumstances, where the thermometer can interact with only one bath at a time and the interaction leads to…
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Due to thermal and power supply limits, modern Intel CPUs reduce their frequency when AVX2 and AVX-512 instructions are executed. As the CPUs wait for 670{\mu}s before increasing the frequency again, the performance of some heterogeneous…
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