NDLI: Flikker:saving DRAM refresh-power through critical data partitioning (CARN, Vol. 39, Issue. 1)

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Author	Zorn, Benjamin G. Pattabiraman, Karthik Moscibroda, Thomas Liu, Song
Abstract	Energy has become a first-class design constraint in computer systems. Memory is a significant contributor to total system power. This paper introduces Flikker, an application-level technique to reduce refresh power in DRAM memories. Flikker enables developers to specify critical and non-critical data in programs and the runtime system allocates this data in separate parts of memory. The portion of memory containing critical data is refreshed at the regular refresh-rate, while the portion containing non-critical data is refreshed at substantially lower rates. This partitioning saves energy at the cost of a modest increase in data corruption in the non-critical data. Flikker thus exposes and leverages an interesting trade-off between energy consumption and hardware correctness. We show that many applications are naturally tolerant to errors in the non-critical data, and in the vast majority of cases, the errors have little or no impact on the application's final outcome. We also find that Flikker can save between 20-25% of the power consumed by the memory sub-system in a mobile device, with negligible impact on application performance. Flikker is implemented almost entirely in software, and requires only modest changes to the hardware.
Starting Page	213
Ending Page	224
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01635964
DOI	10.1145/1961295.1950391
Journal	ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News (CARN)
Volume Number	39
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1981-04-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Critical data Dram refresh Power-savings Allocation Soft errors
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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