Thermal and energy management of high-performance multicores: Distributed and self-calibrating model-predictive controller

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 170-183

  Bartolini, Andrea ^a   Cacciari, Matteo ^a   Tilli, Andrea ^a   Benini, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

energy minimization; model predictive controller; multicore; system identification; Thermal control

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CHIP FAILURES; CLOSED-LOOP; CONTROLLER ARCHITECTURES; CRITICAL ISSUES; ENERGY AWARE; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; FEEDBACK CONTROLLER; HOTSPOTS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROLLERS; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; MULTI CORE; MULTI-CORE PLATFORMS; MULTI-CORES; OPTIMAL FREQUENCY; PERFORMANCE LOSS; PERFORMANCE PENALTIES; POWER DENSITIES; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT; RUNTIMES; SELF-CALIBRATING; SELF-CALIBRATION APPROACH; SINGLE-CHIP; SYSTEM ENERGY; TECHNOLOGY SCALING; THERMAL CONTROL; THERMAL MODEL; WORKING TEMPERATURES; WORKLOAD VARIATION;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MANEUVERABILITY; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; THERMAL VARIABLES CONTROL; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870943329     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2012.117     Document Type: Article

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