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Energy Savings with DVFS

Energy Savings with DVFS. Reduction in CPU power. Extra system power. Effectiveness of DVFS. For energy savings E R > E E Factors in modern systems affecting this equation: Performance delay (t delay ) Idle CPU power consumption (P E ) Power consumption of other devices (P E ).

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Energy Savings with DVFS

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  1. Energy Savings with DVFS Reduction in CPU power Extra system power

  2. Effectiveness of DVFS • For energy savings • ER > EE • Factors in modern systems affecting this equation: • Performance delay (tdelay) • Idle CPU power consumption (PE) • Power consumption of other devices (PE)

  3. Performance Delay • Lower tdelay=> higher energy savings • Depends on memory/CPU intensiveness • Experiments with SPEC CPU2000 • mcf: highly memory intensive • Expect low tdelay • sixtrack: highly cache/CPU intensive • Expect high tdelay • Two state of the art processors • AMD quad core Opteron • On die memory controller • Intel quad core Xeon • Off chip memory controller

  4. Performance Delay Due to on die memory controller

  5. Idle CPU power consumption • Low power idle CPU states common now • C1 state used be default • Zero dynamic power consumption • Support for deeper C-states appearing • C6 on Nehalem • Zero dynamic+leakage power • Higher extra CPU power consumption for modern CPUs • Lower DVFS benefits

  6. Device power consumption • DVFS makes other devices consume power for longer time (tdelay) • Memory (4GB DDR3) • Idle -> 5W • Active -> 10W • Higher extra device power consumption • Lower DVFS benefits for memory intensive benchmarks

  7. Evaluation Setup • Assume a simple static-DVFS policy • AMD Opteron (four v-f settings): • 1.25V/2.6GHz, 1.15V/1.9GHz, 1.05V/1.4GHz, 0.9V/0.8GHz • Compare against a base system with no DVFS and three simple idle PM policies:

  8. Methodology • Run SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks at all v-f settings • Estimate savings baselined against system with PM-(1:3) policies • EPM-i varies based on the policy • DVFS beneficial if: • %EsavingsPM-i > 0

  9. Results • High average delay • On die memory controller

  10. Results • Max Avg ~7% savings • High perf delay

  11. Lowest v-f setting not useful • Avg 7% savings • Avg 200% delay Results

  12. DVFS energy inefficient • Lower system idle power consumption Results

  13. Conclusion • Simple power management policies provide better energy performance tradeoffs • Lower v-f setting offer worse e/p tradeoffs due to high performance delay • DVFS still useful for: • Power reduction: thermal management • Systems with simpler memory controllers and low power system components

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