Reliability-Aware Power Management of Multi-Core Processors
Jan Haase, Markus Damm, Dennis Hauser, Klaus Waldschmidt · 2007
Long-term reliability of processors is experiencing growing attention since decreasing feature sizes and increasing power consumption have a negative influence on the lifespan. The reliability can also be influenced by Dynamic Power Management (DPM), since it affects the processor’s temperature.In this paper, it is examined how different DPM-strategies for Multi- Core processors alter their lifespan. By simulating such a Multi-Core system using the Self Distributing Virtual Machine (SDVM), thus exploiting dynamic parallelism, it is shown that its long-term reliability can be influenced actively with different DPM strategies.