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Collaborative adaptation for energy-efficient heterogeneous mobile SoCs

Collaborative adaptation for energy-efficient heterogeneous mobile SoCs
Collaborative adaptation for energy-efficient heterogeneous mobile SoCs
Heterogeneous Mobile System-on-Chips (SoCs) containing CPU and GPU cores are becoming prevalent in embedded computing, and they need to execute applications concurrently. However, existing run-time management approaches do not perform adaptive mapping and thread-partitioning of applications while exploiting both CPU and GPU cores at the same time. In this paper, we propose an adaptive mapping and thread-partitioning approach for energy-efficient execution of concurrent OpenCL applications on both CPU and GPU cores while satisfying performance requirements. To start execution of concurrent applications, the approach makes mapping (number of cores and operating frequencies) and partitioning (distribution of threads between CPU and GPU) decisions to satisfy performance requirements for each application. The mapping and partitioning decisions are made by having a collaboration between the CPU and GPU cores’ processing capabilities such that balanced execution can be performed. During execution, adaptation is triggered when new application(s) arrive, or an executing one finishes, that frees cores. The adaptation process identifies a new mapping and thread-partitioning in a similar collaborative manner for remaining applications provided it leads to an improvement in energy efficiency. The proposed approach is experimentally validated on the Odroid-XU3 hardware platform with varying set of applications. Results show an average energy saving of 37%, compared to existing approaches while satisfying the performance requirements.
SoC, adaptation, concurrent execution, energy-efficiency, heterogeneous computing
185-197
Singh, Amit Kumar
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Basireddy, Karunakar Reddy
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Al-Hashimi, Bashir
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Singh, Amit Kumar, Basireddy, Karunakar Reddy, Prakash, Alok, Merrett, Geoff and Al-Hashimi, Bashir (2020) Collaborative adaptation for energy-efficient heterogeneous mobile SoCs. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 69 (2), 185-197, [8859334]. (doi:10.1109/TC.2019.2943855).

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Heterogeneous Mobile System-on-Chips (SoCs) containing CPU and GPU cores are becoming prevalent in embedded computing, and they need to execute applications concurrently. However, existing run-time management approaches do not perform adaptive mapping and thread-partitioning of applications while exploiting both CPU and GPU cores at the same time. In this paper, we propose an adaptive mapping and thread-partitioning approach for energy-efficient execution of concurrent OpenCL applications on both CPU and GPU cores while satisfying performance requirements. To start execution of concurrent applications, the approach makes mapping (number of cores and operating frequencies) and partitioning (distribution of threads between CPU and GPU) decisions to satisfy performance requirements for each application. The mapping and partitioning decisions are made by having a collaboration between the CPU and GPU cores’ processing capabilities such that balanced execution can be performed. During execution, adaptation is triggered when new application(s) arrive, or an executing one finishes, that frees cores. The adaptation process identifies a new mapping and thread-partitioning in a similar collaborative manner for remaining applications provided it leads to an improvement in energy efficiency. The proposed approach is experimentally validated on the Odroid-XU3 hardware platform with varying set of applications. Results show an average energy saving of 37%, compared to existing approaches while satisfying the performance requirements.

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Accepted/In Press date: 28 August 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 October 2019
Published date: 1 February 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under EPSRC Grant EP/L000563/1 and EP/K034448/1 the PRiME Programme Grant (www.prime-project.org). Experimental data used in this paper can be found at DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1077 Publisher Copyright: © 1968-2012 IEEE.
Keywords: SoC, adaptation, concurrent execution, energy-efficiency, heterogeneous computing

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Local EPrints ID: 434551
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/434551
PURE UUID: 1a94102f-6185-4d39-bd4b-1e69fb5ba7a8
ORCID for Karunakar Reddy Basireddy: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9755-1041
ORCID for Geoff Merrett: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-3894

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Date deposited: 01 Oct 2019 16:30
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:02

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Author: Amit Kumar Singh
Author: Karunakar Reddy Basireddy ORCID iD
Author: Alok Prakash
Author: Geoff Merrett ORCID iD
Author: Bashir Al-Hashimi

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