Complete System Power Estimation Using Processor Performance Events

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 563-577

  Bircher, W Lloyd ^a   John, Lizy K ^b  

^a ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy aware systems; evaluation; measurement; modeling; power management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008569578     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2011.47     Document Type: Article

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