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The Next 700 CPU Power Models

Maxime Colmant edited this page Feb 3, 2016 · 18 revisions

Overview

This pages describes the settings, analysis and experiments presented in the USENIX paper.

Prerequisites

To be able to launch the analysis or the experiments, you must install:

  • libpfm-4.6, to get an extended access to hardware counters.
  • bluez and libbluetooth-dev, to use the external PowerSPY power meter.
  • sbt, to compile and create self-running apps.

Setups

Processor Freq. Design TDP SMT DVFS Turbo OS Kernel Details
Intel Xeon W3520 2.66GHz 8 threads 130W Yes Yes Yes Ubuntu 14.04 3.13 ondemand governor enabled
Intel Xeon W3520 2.66GHz 8 threads 130W Yes Yes Yes CentOS 7 3.10 balanced profile enabled
Intel Xeon W3520 2.66GHz 8 threads 130W Yes Yes Yes CentOS 7 3.10 latency-performance profile enabled
Intel i3 2120 3.10GHz 4 threads 55W Yes Yes No Ubuntu 14.04 3.13 ondemand governor enabled
ARM Cortex A15 2.32GHz 4 cores, or 1 low power core N/A No No No Ubuntu 14.04 3.10 -
AMD Opteron 8354 2.2GHz 16 cores N/A No No No Ubuntu 14.04 3.13 -