TY - JOUR
T1 - Power-efficient Interconnection Networks
T2 - Dynamic Voltage Scaling with Links
AU - Shang, Li
AU - Peh, Li Shiuan
AU - Jha, Niraj K.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Power consumption is a key issue in high- performance interconnection network design. Communication links, already a significant consumer of power now, will take up an ever larger portion of the power budget as demand for network bandwidth increases. In this paper, we motivate the use of dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) for links, where the frequency and voltage of links are dynamically adjusted to minimize power consumption. We propose a history-based DVS algorithm that judiciously adjusts DVS policies based on past link utilization. Despite very conservative assumptions about DVS link characteristics, our approach realizes up to 4.3X power savings (3.2X average), with just an average 27.4% latency increase and 2.5% throughput reduction. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that targets dynamic power optimization of interconnection networks.
AB - Power consumption is a key issue in high- performance interconnection network design. Communication links, already a significant consumer of power now, will take up an ever larger portion of the power budget as demand for network bandwidth increases. In this paper, we motivate the use of dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) for links, where the frequency and voltage of links are dynamically adjusted to minimize power consumption. We propose a history-based DVS algorithm that judiciously adjusts DVS policies based on past link utilization. Despite very conservative assumptions about DVS link characteristics, our approach realizes up to 4.3X power savings (3.2X average), with just an average 27.4% latency increase and 2.5% throughput reduction. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that targets dynamic power optimization of interconnection networks.
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U2 - 10.1109/L-CA.2002.10
DO - 10.1109/L-CA.2002.10
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85008055290
SN - 1556-6056
VL - 1
SP - 6
JO - IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
JF - IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
IS - 1
ER -