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A variety of computing platform like Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and multicore Central Processing Unit (CPU) in data centers are suitable for acceleration of data-intensive workloads. Especially,…
Systems of linear equations arise at the heart of many scientific and engineering applications. Many of these linear systems are sparse; i.e., most of the elements in the coefficient matrix are zero. Direct methods based on matrix…
Shared resource interference is observed by applications as dynamic performance asymmetry. Prior art has developed approaches to reduce the impact of performance asymmetry mainly at the operating system and architectural levels. In this…
The limited energy available in most embedded systems poses a significant challenge in enhancing the performance of embedded processors and microcontrollers. One promising approach to address this challenge is the use of approximate…
A heterogeneous architecture composed by a host and an accelerator must frequently deal with situations where several independent tasks are available to be offloaded onto the accelerator. These tasks can be generated by concurrent…
Task-based programming models are emerging as a promising alternative to make the most of multi-/many-core systems. These programming models rely on runtime systems, and their goal is to improve application performance by properly…
We consider energy-efficient scheduling on multiprocessors, where the speed of each processor can be individually scaled, and a processor consumes power $s^{\alpha}$ when running at speed $s$, for $\alpha>1$. A scheduling algorithm needs to…
Growing deployment of power and energy efficient throughput accelerators (GPU) in data centers demands enhancement of power-performance co-optimization capabilities of GPUs. Realization of exascale computing using accelerators requires…
This work proposes a methodology to find performance and energy trade-offs for parallel applications running on Heterogeneous Multi-Processing systems with a single instruction-set architecture. These offer flexibility in the form of…
The aim of power management policies is to reduce the amount of energy consumed by computer systems while maintaining satisfactory level of performance. One common method for saving energy is to simply suspend the system during the idle…
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…
Processors with dynamic power management provide a variety of settings to control energy efficiency. However, tuning these settings does not achieve optimal energy savings. We highlight how existing power capping mechanisms can address…
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…
The increase in performance and power of computing systems requires the wider use of program optimizations. The goal of performing optimizations is not only to reduce program runtime, but also to reduce other computer resources including…
Using large-scale multicore systems to get the maximum performance and energy efficiency with manageable programmability is a major challenge. The partitioned global address space (PGAS) programming model enhances programmability by…
Future servers will incorporate many active lowpower modes for different system components, such as cores and memory. Though these modes provide flexibility for power management via Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS), they must be…
In this paper, we demonstrate that a server running a single latency-sensitive application can be treated as a black box to reduce energy consumption while meeting an SLA target. We find that when the mean offered load is stable, one can…
Optimizing task-to-core allocation can substantially reduce power consumption in multi-core platforms without degrading user experience. However, existing approaches overlook critical factors such as parallelism, compute intensity, and…
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.…
Cholesky factorization is a widely used method for solving linear systems involving symmetric, positive-definite matrices, and can be an attractive choice in applications where a high degree of numerical stability is needed. One such…