Title
Task Migration Policy for Thermal-Aware Dynamic Performance Optimization in Many-Core Systems
Abstract
The steady downsizing of semiconductor technology nodes in recent years has led to a rapid increase in the density of power consumption on chips which, in turn, renders temperature a major issue for many-core systems, adversely affecting their performance, reliability, leakage, cost, etc. In this context, task migration is a powerful technique that is widely used for controlling the temperature profile of many-core systems under dynamic workloads with the goal to improve their performance, utilization, reliability, etc. In this paper, we present a task migration policy for thermal-aware performance optimization in heterogeneous many-core systems. The proposed policy is developed based on an analytical and thermally safe power-budgeting scheme and uses Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) for power and thermal management of the system. Our migration policy aims at maximizing the system's performance and, at the same time, proactively enforcing thermal safety using DVFS. To that end, it iteratively adapts the distribution of active cores in the system (through proper migration decisions) to maximize the thermally safe power budget of active cores and, thereby, enable them to operate on higher frequencies without violating their safe thermal threshold. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed policy offers 2x higher performance gain in comparison to existing approaches which aim at greedily reducing the average, variance, or gradient of temperature as an indirect means to enhance performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3162617
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Dynamic thermal management, heterogeneous, many-core systems, performance optimization, task migration
Journal
10
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Behnaz Pourmohseni192.16
Stefan Wildermann200.34
Fedor Smirnov300.34
Paul E. Meyer400.34
Jürgen Teich52886273.54