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doi: 10.7873/DATE.2015.0454
VARSHA: Variation and Reliability-Aware Application Scheduling with Adaptive Parallelism in the Dark-Silicon Era
Nishit Kapadiaa and Sudeep Pasrichab
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A.
ankapadia@colostate.edu
bsudeep@colostate.edu
ABSTRACT
With deeper technology scaling accompanied by a worsening power-wall, an increasing proportion of chip area on a chip multiprocessor (CMP) is expected to be occupied by darksilicon. At the same time, design challenges due to process variations and soft-errors in integrated circuits are projected to become even more severe. In this work, we propose a novel framework that leverages the knowledge of variations on the chip to perform runtime application mapping and dynamic voltage scaling to optimize system performance and energy, while satisfying dark-silicon powerconstraints of the chip as well as application-specific performance and reliability constraints. Our experimental results show average savings of 35%-80% in application service-times and 13%-15% in energy consumption, compared to the state-of-the-art.
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