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On the Energy-Performance Tradeoff for Parallel Applications

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Computer Performance Engineering (EPEW 2010)

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Improving software performance by deploying parallel software on multiple processors often comes at the cost of increasing energy consumption. This paper focuses on such energy-performance tradeoffs. Techniques for computing bounds on software speedup and energy factor that captures the energy cost are presented. Numeric examples for the bounding techniques lead to valuable insights regarding system behaviour, energy and performance.

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  1. Dept. of Systems and Computer Eng., Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, K1S5B6

    Shikharesh Majumdar

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Fisica e Chimica, Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Piazza della Repubblica 13, 61029, Urbino, Italy

    Alessandro Aldini  & Marco Bernardo  & 

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, Universit di Bologna, Mura Anteo Zamboni 7, 40126, Bologna, Italy

    Luciano Bononi

  3. Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit dell’Aquila, Via Vetoio, Coppito, 67100, L’Aquila, Italy

    Vittorio Cortellessa

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Majumdar, S. (2010). On the Energy-Performance Tradeoff for Parallel Applications. In: Aldini, A., Bernardo, M., Bononi, L., Cortellessa, V. (eds) Computer Performance Engineering. EPEW 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6342. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15784-4_5

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