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The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of generative large language models (LLMs) have made them a pivotal workload in various applications. Today, LLM inference clusters receive a large number of queries with strict Service Level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jovan Stojkovic , Chaojie Zhang , Íñigo Goiri , Josep Torrellas , Esha Choukse

Modern computing paradigms, such as cloud computing, are increasingly adopting GPUs to boost their computing capabilities primarily due to the heterogeneous nature of AI/ML/deep learning workloads. However, the energy consumption of GPUs is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Shashikant Ilager , Rajeev Muralidhar , Kotagiri Rammohanrao , Rajkumar Buyya

Diffusion model deployment has been suffering from high energy consumption and inference latency despite its superior performance in visual generation tasks. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) offers a promising solution to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jinqi Wen , Tong Xie , Runsheng Wang , Meng Li

In recent years, the issue of energy consumption in parallel and distributed computing systems has attracted a great deal of attention. In response to this, many energy-aware scheduling algorithms have been developed primarily using the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi , Javid Taheri , Albert Y. Zomaya

Energy consumption is an important concern in modern multicore processors. The energy consumed during the execution of an application can be minimized by tuning the hardware state utilizing knobs such as frequency, voltage etc. The existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Chhaya Trehan , Hans Vandierendonck , Georgios Karakonstantis , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

Serverless workflows have emerged in Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms to represent the operational structure of traditional applications. With latency propagation effects becoming increasingly prominent, step-wise resource tuning is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Achilleas Tzenetopoulos , Dimosthenis Masouros , Sotirios Xydis , Dimitrios Soudris

Prefill/decode disaggregation is increasingly adopted in LLM serving to improve the latency-throughput tradeoff and meet strict TTFT and TPOT SLOs. However, LLM inference remains energy-hungry: autoscaling alone is too coarse-grained to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Omar Basit , Yunzhao Liu , Z. Jonny Kong , Y. Charlie Hu

A low-cap power budget is challenging for exascale computing. Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) and Uncore Frequency Scaling (UFS) are the two widely used techniques for limiting the HPC application's energy footprint. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Sunil Kumar , Akshat Gupta , Vivek Kumar , Sridutt Bhalachandra

Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling is essential for enhancing energy efficiency in mobile platforms. However, traditional heuristic-based governors are increasingly inadequate for managing the complexity of heterogeneous System-on-Chip…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jinqi Yan , Fang He , Qianlong Sang , Bifeng Tong , Peng Sun , Yili Gong , Chuang Hu , Dazhao Cheng

We consider a task graph mapped on a set of homogeneous processors. We aim at minimizing the energy consumption while enforcing two constraints: a prescribed bound on the execution time (or makespan), and a reliability threshold. Dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-03 Guillaume Aupy , Anne Benoit , Yves Robert

This paper addresses a challenging problem - how to reduce energy consumption without incurring performance drop when deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) at the inference stage. In order to alleviate the computation and storage burdens,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Xue Geng , Jie Fu , Bin Zhao , Jie Lin , Mohamed M. Sabry Aly , Christopher Pal , Vijay Chandrasekhar

Minimizing energy consumption of low-power wireless nodes is a persistent challenge from the constrained Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper, we start from the observation that constrained IoT devices have largely different hardware…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Michel Rottleuthner , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

Energy consumption is a critical design issue in real-time systems, especially in battery- operated systems. Maintaining high performance, while extending the battery life between charges is an interesting challenge for system designers.…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Santhi Baskaran , P. Thambidurai

The recent rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized the deep learning field. However, the desire to deploy LLMs on edge devices introduces energy efficiency and latency challenges. Recurrent LLM (R-LLM) architectures have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Ivan Knunyants , Maryam Tavakol , Manolis Sifalakis , Yingfu Xu , Amirreza Yousefzadeh , Guangzhi Tang

Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS), CPU pinning, horizontal, and vertical scaling, are four techniques that have been proposed as actuators to control the performance and energy consumption on data center servers. This work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Jakub Krzywda , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , Trevor E. Carlson , Per-Olov Östberg , Erik Elmroth

Increased reliance on graphics processing units (GPUs) for high-intensity computing tasks raises challenges regarding energy consumption. To address this issue, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) has emerged as a promising…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Qiang Wang , Laiyi Li , Weile Luo , Yijia Zhang , Bingqiang Wang

As energy proportional computing gradually extends the success of DVFS (Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling) to the entire system, DVFS control algorithms will play a key role in reducing server clusters' power consumption. The focus of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-08-03 Lin Yuan , Jianfeng Zhan , Bo Sang , Lei Wang , Haining Wang

Deep learning has made great strides lately with the availability of powerful computing machines and the advent of user-friendly programming environments. It is anticipated that the deep learning algorithms will entirely provision the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-01 Vishnu Vardhan Nimmalapudi , Ajith Kumar Mengani , Roopa Vuppula , Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya

As large language models (LLMs) scale in size and adoption, their computational and environmental costs continue to rise. Prior benchmarking efforts have primarily focused on latency reduction in idealized settings, often overlooking the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jared Fernandez , Clara Na , Vashisth Tiwari , Yonatan Bisk , Sasha Luccioni , Emma Strubell

The deployment and scaling of large language models (LLMs) have become critical as they permeate various applications, demanding high-throughput and low-latency serving systems. Existing frameworks struggle to balance these requirements,…