Power-Aware Computer Systems: Second International Workshop, PACS 2002 Cambridge, MA, USA, February 2, 2002, Revised Papers: 2325 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2325) - Tapa blanda

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WelcometotheproceedingsofthePower-AwareComputerSystems(PACS2002) workshopheld in conjunction with the 8th InternationalSymposium on High PerformanceComputerArchitecture(HPCA-8). Improvementsincomputers- temperformancehavebeenaccompaniedbyanalarmingincreaseinpowerand energydissipation,leading tohigher costandlowerreliabilityinallcomputer systemsmarketsegments. Thehigherpower/energydissipationhasalsosign- icantlyreducedbatterylife inportablesystems. Whilecircuit-leveltechniques continuetoreducepowerandenergy,alllevelsofcomputersystemsarebeing usedtoaddresspowerandenergyissues. PACS2002wasthesecondworkshopin itsseriestoaddresspower-/energy-awarenessatalllevelsofcomputersystems andbroughttogetherexpertsfromacademiaandindustry. Theseproceedingsincluderesearchpapersspanningawidespectrumof- eas in power-aware systems. We have grouped the papers into the following categories:(1)power-awarearchitectureandmicroarchitecture,(2)power-aware real-time systems, (3) power modeling and monitoring, and (4) power-aware operatingsystemsandcompilers. The?rstgroupofpapersproposepower-awaretechniquesfortheprocessor pipeline using adaptiveresizing of power-hungrymicroarchitecturalstructures andclockgating,andpower-awarecachedesignbyavoidingtagchecksin- riodswhenthetagshavenotchanged. Thisgroupalsoincludesideastoadapt energyandperformancedynamicallybydetectingregionsofapplicationatr- timewherethesupplyvoltagemaybescaledtoreducepowerwithabounded decrease in performance. Lastly, a paper on multiprocessor designs trades o? computingcapacityandfunctionalityforimprovedenergypercyclebysched- ing simple tasks on low-end and low-energy processorsand complex tasks on high-endprocessors. Thesecondgroupofpaperstargetreal-timesystemsincludingideasonal- complexityheuristicwhichschedulesreal-timetaskssuchthatnotaskmissesits deadlineandthetotalenergysavingsaremaximized. Theotherpapersinthis group(1)tunethesystem-levelparallelismtothecurrent-levelofpower/energy availabilityandoptimizethesystempowerutilization,and(2)performadaptive texturemappinginreal-time3Dgraphicssystemsbasedonamodelofhuman visualperceptiontoachievesigni?cantpowersavingswithoutnoticeableimage qualitydegradation. Thethirdgroupofpapersfocusonpowermodelingandmonitoringincluding statisticalpro?lingtodetectsoftwarehotspotsofpower,andusingPetriNetsto modelDRAMpowerpolicies. Thisgroupalsoincludesasimulatorforevaluating theperformanceandpowerofdynamicvoltagescalingalgorithms. Thelast groupconcentratesonOS and compilersfor lowpower. The ?rst paperproposesapplication-issueddirectivestosetthepowermodesindevices suchasadiskdrive. Thesecondpaperproposespoliciesforcluster-widepower VI Preface management. Thepoliciesemploycombinationsofdynamicvoltagescalingand turningonando?toreduceoverallclusterpower. PACS2002wasahighlysuccessfulforumduetothehigh-qualitysubmissions, theenormouse?ortsoftheprogramcommitteeandthekeynotespeaker,andthe attendees. WewouldliketothankRonnyRonenforanexcellentkeynotespeech, showingthetechnologicalscalingtrendsandtheirimpactonenergy/powerc- sumption in general-purposemicroprocessors,and pinpointing recentmicro- chitecturalstrategiestoachievemorepower-e?cientmicroprocessors. Wewould like to also thank Antonio Gonzalez, Andreas Moshovos,John Kalamatianos, andothermembersoftheHPCA-8organizingcommitteewhohelpedarrange forlocalaccomodationandpublicizetheworkshop. February2002 BabakFalsa?andT. N. Vijaykumar PACS2002 Program Committee BabakFalsa?,CarnegieMellonUniversity(co-chair) T. N. Vijaykumar,PurdueUniversity(co-chair) DaveA

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Power-Aware Computer Systems, PACS 2002, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, in February 2002.

The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on power-aware architecture and microarchitecture, power-aware real-time systems, power modeling and monitoring, and power-aware operating systems and compilers.