Task migration for dynamic power and performance characteristics on many-core distributed operating systems

Proceedings of the 2013 21st Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 310-317

  Holmbacka, Simon ^a   Lund, Wictor ^a   Lafond, Sébastien ^a   Lilius, Johan ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

ARM Cortex A9; Distributed Operating Systems; Many Core Systems; Task Migration

Indexed keywords

ARM CORTEX-A9; DISTRIBUTED OPERATING SYSTEMS; HARDWARE PLATFORM; INTELLIGENT POWER; MANY-CORE; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; TASK MIGRATION; THERMAL AWARENESS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; HARDWARE;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84877671644     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PDP.2013.52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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