NDLI: Multicore thermal management using approximate explicit model predictive control

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Author	Zanini, F. Jones, C.N. Atienza, D. De Micheli, G.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Atienza, D.) \|\| Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL), EPFL, Switzerland (Jones, C.N.) \|\| Laboratory of Integrated Systems (LSI), EPFL, Switzerland (Zanini, F.; De Micheli, G.)
Abstract	Meeting temperature constraints and reducing the hot-spots are critical for achieving reliable and efficient operation of complex multi-core systems. In this paper we aim at achieving an online smooth thermal control action that minimizes the performance loss as well as the computational and hardware overhead of embedding a thermal management system inside the MPSoC. The optimization problem considers the thermal profile of the system, its evolution over time and current time-varying workload requirements. We formulate this problem as a discrete-time control problem using model predictive control. The solution is computed off-line and partially on-line using an explicit approximate algorithm. This proposed method, compared with the optimum approach provides a significant reduction in hardware requirements and computational cost at the expense of a small loss in accuracy. We perform experiments on a model of the 8-core Niagara-1 multicore architecture using benchmarks ranging from web-accessing to playing multimedia. Results show that the proposed method provides comparable performance(loss up to 2.7%) versus the optimum solution with a reduction up to 72.5× in the the computational complexity.
Starting Page	3321
Ending Page	3324
File Size	160826
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424453085
DOI	10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537891
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-05-30
Publisher Place	France
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Thermal management Multicore processing Predictive models Predictive control Hardware Temperature Control systems Performance loss Embedded computing Time varying systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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