Power And Hotspot Modeling For Modern GPUs

As General Purpose GPUs (GPGPU) are increasingly becoming a prominent component of high performance computing platforms, power and thermal dissipation are getting more attention. The trade-offs among performance, power, and heat must be well modeled and evaluated from the early stage of GPU design. This necessitates a tool that allows GPU architects to quickly and accurately evaluate their design. There are a few models for GPU power but most of them estimate power at a higher level than architecture, which are therefore missing hardware reconfigurability. In this thesis, we propose a framework that models power and heat dissipation at the hardware architecture level, which allows for configuring and investigating individual hardware components. Our framework is also capable of visualizing the heat map of the processor over different clock cycles. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive framework that integrates and visualizes power consumption and heat dissipation of GPUs.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S. in Engineering Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer and Information Science

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Hassan, Md Mainul

Contributors dc:contributor

• Byunghyun Jang
• Philip J. Rhodes
• Dawn Wilkins

• Gpu
• Hardware Architecture
• Hot Spot
• Power Model
• Computer Sciences

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/449

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-1448