Investigating the Potential of Energy-savings Using a Fine-grained Task Based Programming Model on Multi-cores
Iordan Alexandru, Artur Podobas, Lasse Natvig, Mats Brorsson · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2011
In this paper we study the relation between energy-efficiencyand parallel executions when implemented with a fine-grained task-centricprogramming model. Using a simulation framework comprised of an ar-chitectural simulator and a power and area estimation tool, we haveinvestigated the potential energy-savings when employing parallelism onmulti-cores system. In our experiments with 2 - 8 multi-cores systems,we employed frequency and voltage scaling in order to keep the relativeperformance of the systems constant and measured the energy-efficiencyusing the Energy-delay-product. Also, we compared the energy consump-tion of the parallel execution against the serial one. Our results showthat through judicious choice of load balancing parameters, significantimprovements of around 200 % in energy consumption can be acheived.