The dataflow programming model has been extensively used as an effective solution to implement efficient parallel programming frameworks. However, the amount of resources allocated to the runtime support is usually fixed once by the programmer or the runtime, and kept static during the entire execution. While there are cases where such a static choice may be appropriate, other scenarios may require to dynamically change the parallelism degree during the application execution. In this paper we propose an algorithm for multicore shared memory platforms, that dynamically selects the optimal number of cores to be used as well as their clock frequency according to either the workload pressure or to explicit user requirements. We implement the algorithm for both structured and unstructured parallel applications and we validate our proposal over three real applications, showing that it is able to save a significant amount of power, while not impairing the performance and not requiring additional effort from the application programmer.

A power-aware, self-adaptive macro data flow framework

DANELUTTO, MARCO;DE SENSI, DANIELE;TORQUATI, MASSIMO
2017-01-01

Abstract

The dataflow programming model has been extensively used as an effective solution to implement efficient parallel programming frameworks. However, the amount of resources allocated to the runtime support is usually fixed once by the programmer or the runtime, and kept static during the entire execution. While there are cases where such a static choice may be appropriate, other scenarios may require to dynamically change the parallelism degree during the application execution. In this paper we propose an algorithm for multicore shared memory platforms, that dynamically selects the optimal number of cores to be used as well as their clock frequency according to either the workload pressure or to explicit user requirements. We implement the algorithm for both structured and unstructured parallel applications and we validate our proposal over three real applications, showing that it is able to save a significant amount of power, while not impairing the performance and not requiring additional effort from the application programmer.
2017
Danelutto, Marco; DE SENSI, Daniele; Torquati, Massimo
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