Towards better performance per watt in virtual environments on asymmetric single-ISA multi-core systems

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 105-109

  Kumar, Viren ^a   Fedorova, Alexandra ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Performance per watt; Performance asymmetric multicore architectures; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

ENERGY-EFFICIENT SCHEDULING; HETEROGENEOUS MULTICORE; HYPERVISOR; IDLE TIME; IN-CORE; MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES; MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEMS; REDUCING POWER; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SCHEDULING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 77952281111     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1618525.1618538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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