Abstract
With power becoming a key design constraint, particularly in server machines, emerging architectures need to leverage reconfigurable techniques to provide an energy optimal system. The need for a single chip solution to fit all needs in a warehouse sized server is important for designers. This allows for simpler design, ease of programmability, and part reuse in all segments of the server. A reconfigurable design would allow a single chip to operate efficiently in all aspects of a server providing both single thread performance for tasks requiring it, and efficient parallel processing helping to reduce power consumption. In this paper we explore the possibility of a reconfigurable server part and discuss the benefits and open questions still surrounding these techniques.
Keywords
- Reconfigurable
- Low Power
- Server Architectures
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution.
Buying options
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Lim, K., Ranganathan, P., Chang, J., Patel, C., Mudge, T., Reinhardt, S.: Understanding and Designing New Server Architectures for Emerging Warehouse-Computing Environments. In: Proceedings of the 35th ISCA, pp. 315–326 (2008)
Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, US Environmental ProtectionAgency, http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/prod_development/downloads/EPA_Datacenter_Report_Congress_Final1.pdf
Zhai, B., Dreslinski, R.G., Mudge, T., Blaauw, D., Sylvester, D.: Energy efficient near-threshold chip multi-processing. In: ACM/IEEE ISLPED, pp. 32–37 (2007)
Zhai, B., Blaauw, D., Sylvester, D., Flautner, K.: Theoretical and practical limits of dynamic voltage scaling. In: ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, pp. 868–873 (2004)
Wang, A., Chandrakasan, A.: A 180mV FFT processor using subthreshold circuit techniques. In: IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, pp. 292–529 (2004)
Dreslinski, R.G., Zhai, B., Mudge, T., Blaauw, D., Sylvester, D.: An Energy Efficient Parallel Architecture Using Near Threshold Operation. In: Proceedings of the 16th PACT, pp. 175–188 (2007)
Binkert, N.L., Dreslinski, R.G., Hsu, L.R., Lim, K.T., Saidi, A.G., Reinhardt, S.K.: The M5 Simulator: Modeling Networked Systems. IEEE Micro. 26(4), 52–60 (2006)
SpecWeb99 benchmark, http://www.spec.org/web99
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
About this paper
Cite this paper
Dreslinski, R.G., Fick, D., Blaauw, D., Sylvester, D., Mudge, T. (2009). Reconfigurable Multicore Server Processors for Low Power Operation. In: Bertels, K., Dimopoulos, N., Silvano, C., Wong, S. (eds) Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation. SAMOS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5657. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03138-0_27
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03138-0_27
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-03137-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-03138-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)