Power-efficient accelerator allocation in adaptive dark silicon many-core systems

Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Jorg Henkel

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

Abstract

Modern many-core systems in the dark silicon era face the predicament of underutilized resources of the chip due to power constraints. Therefore, hardware accelerators are becoming popular as they can overcome this problem by exercising a part of the program on dedicated custom logic in an energy efficient way. However, efficient accelerator usage poses numerous challenges, like adaptations for accelerator's sharing schedule on the many-core systems under run-time varying scenarios. In this work, we propose a power-efficient accelerator allocation scheme for adaptive many-core systems that maximally utilizes and dynamically allocates a shared accelerator to competing cores, such that deadlines of the executing applications are met and the total power consumption of the overall system is minimized. The experimental results demonstrate power minimization and high accelerator utilization for a many-core system.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2015 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages916-919
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9783981537048
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 22 2015
Event2015 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2015 - Grenoble, France
Duration: Mar 9 2015Mar 13 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE
Volume2015-April
ISSN (Print)1530-1591

Other

Other2015 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2015
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityGrenoble
Period3/9/153/13/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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