The forgotten 'Uncore': On the energy-efficiency of heterogeneous cores

Proceedings of the 2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX ATC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 367-372

  Gupta, Vishal ^a   Brett, Paul ^b   Koufaty, David ^b   Reddy, Dheeraj ^b   Hahn, Scott ^b   Schwan, Karsten ^a   Srinivasa, Ganapati ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEM-ON-CHIP;

CLIENT APPLICATIONS; EFFICIENCY GAIN; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HETEROGENEOUS CORES; HETEROGENEOUS MULTICORE PROCESSORS; MULTI-CORES; SERVER SYSTEM; USAGE SCENARIOS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 85077127467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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