Thread assignment optimization with real-time performance and memory bandwidth guarantees for energy-efficient heterogeneous multi-core systems

Real-Time Technology and Applications - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 263-272

  Petrucci, Vinicius ^a   Loques, Orlando ^a   Mossé, Daniel ^b   Melhem, Rami ^b   Gazala, Neven Abou ^c   Gobriel, Sameh ^c  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic thread assignment; Energy efficiency; Memory bandwidth; Optimization; Real time performance

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION THREADS; ASSIGNMENT OF; CPU-INTENSIVE; CURRENT TRENDS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; HETEROGENEOUS MULTICORE; HETEROGENEOUS PLATFORMS; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LARGE CORE; LOW POWER; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; PERFORMANCE GAIN; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; SOFT REAL TIME;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTIMIZATION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84862000245     PISSN: 10801812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RTAS.2012.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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