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Exploring energy-performance trade-offs for heterogeneous interconnect clustered VLIW processors

Nagpal, Rahul and Srikant, YN (2006) Exploring energy-performance trade-offs for heterogeneous interconnect clustered VLIW processors. In: 13th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2006),, Dec 18-21, 2006, Bangalore, India, pp. 497-508.

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Abstract

Clustered architecture processors are preferred for embedded systems because centralized register file architectures scale poorly in terms of clock rate, chip area, and power consumption. Although clustering helps by improving clock speed, reducing energy consumption of the logic, and making the design simpler, it introduces extra overheads by way of inter-cluster communication. This communication happens over long global wires which leads to delay in execution and significantly high energy consumption.In this paper, we propose a new instruction scheduling algorithm that exploits scheduling slacks of instructions and communication slacks of data values together to achieve better energy-performance trade-offs for clustered architectures with heterogeneous interconnect. Our instruction scheduling algorithm achieves 35% and 40% reduction in communication energy, whereas the overall energy-delay product improves by 4.5% and 6.5% respectively for 2 cluster and 4 cluster machines with marginal increase (1.6% and 1.1%) in execution time. Our test bed uses the Trimaran compiler infrastructure.

Item Type: Conference Paper
Series.: LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Publisher: Springer
Additional Information: Copyright of this article belongs to Springer.
Department/Centre: Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited: 01 Sep 2010 05:43
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2010 06:12
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/30514

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