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Reliability and energy-aware mapping and scheduling of multimedia applications on multiprocessor systems

Reliability and energy-aware mapping and scheduling of multimedia applications on multiprocessor systems
Reliability and energy-aware mapping and scheduling of multimedia applications on multiprocessor systems
Lifetime reliability is an emerging concern in multiprocessor systems as escalating power density and hence temperature variation continues to accelerate wear-out leading to a growing prominence of device defects. In this paper, we propose a system-level approach that involves performance-aware mapping of multimedia applications on a multiprocessor system to jointly minimize energy consumption and temperature related wear-out. Fundamental to this approach is a simplified temperature model that incorporates not only the transient and the steady-state behavior (temporal effect), but also the temperature dependency on the surrounding cores (spatial effect). This model is validated against the temperature obtained using the HotSpot tool with transient and steady-state simulations, and is shown to be accurate within 5.5 celsius, leading to an MTTF estimation accuracy of an average 21% with respect to the state-of-the-art approaches. The proposed temperature model is integrated in a gradient-based fast heuristic that controls the voltage and frequency of the cores to limit the average and peak temperature leading to a longer lifetime, simultaneously minimizing the energy consumption. Lifetime computation considers task remapping, which is a common feature available in modern multiprocessor systems. A linear programming approach is then proposed to distribute the cores of a multiprocessor system among concurrent applications to maximize the lifetime. Experiments conducted with a set of synthetic and real-life applications represented as synchronous data flow graphs demonstrate that the proposed approach minimizes energy consumption by an average 24% with 47% increase in lifetime. For concurrent applications, the proposed lifetime-aware core distribution results in an average 10\% improvement in lifetime as compared to performance-based core distribution.
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Das, Anup K.
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Kumar, Akash
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Veeravalli, Bharadwaj
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Das, Anup K., Kumar, Akash and Veeravalli, Bharadwaj (2015) Reliability and energy-aware mapping and scheduling of multimedia applications on multiprocessor systems. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. (doi:10.1109/TPDS.2015.2412137).

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Lifetime reliability is an emerging concern in multiprocessor systems as escalating power density and hence temperature variation continues to accelerate wear-out leading to a growing prominence of device defects. In this paper, we propose a system-level approach that involves performance-aware mapping of multimedia applications on a multiprocessor system to jointly minimize energy consumption and temperature related wear-out. Fundamental to this approach is a simplified temperature model that incorporates not only the transient and the steady-state behavior (temporal effect), but also the temperature dependency on the surrounding cores (spatial effect). This model is validated against the temperature obtained using the HotSpot tool with transient and steady-state simulations, and is shown to be accurate within 5.5 celsius, leading to an MTTF estimation accuracy of an average 21% with respect to the state-of-the-art approaches. The proposed temperature model is integrated in a gradient-based fast heuristic that controls the voltage and frequency of the cores to limit the average and peak temperature leading to a longer lifetime, simultaneously minimizing the energy consumption. Lifetime computation considers task remapping, which is a common feature available in modern multiprocessor systems. A linear programming approach is then proposed to distribute the cores of a multiprocessor system among concurrent applications to maximize the lifetime. Experiments conducted with a set of synthetic and real-life applications represented as synchronous data flow graphs demonstrate that the proposed approach minimizes energy consumption by an average 24% with 47% increase in lifetime. For concurrent applications, the proposed lifetime-aware core distribution results in an average 10\% improvement in lifetime as compared to performance-based core distribution.

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Published date: 12 March 2015
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 375487
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/375487
ISSN: 1045-9219
PURE UUID: 2f964e42-4457-4df1-979f-7570c3d57084

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Date deposited: 27 Mar 2015 12:45
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 19:27

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Author: Anup K. Das
Author: Akash Kumar
Author: Bharadwaj Veeravalli

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