SPAN: A software power analyzer for multicore computer systems

Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-34

  Wang, Shinan ^a   Chen, Hui ^a   Shi, Weisong ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Multicore; Power model; Software power profiling

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

DETAILED CLASSIFICATION; MULTI CORE; MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES; NAS PARALLEL BENCHMARKS; ON-CHIP MULTIPROCESSOR; POWER MODEL; POWER PROFILING; SOURCE CODE IMPLEMENTATION;

ELECTRIC LOSSES;

EID: 79953882618     PISSN: 22105379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suscom.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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