CS 7810 Lecture 15
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CS 7810 Lecture 15. A Case for Thermal-Aware Floorplanning at the Microarchitectural Level K. Sankaranarayanan, S. Velusamy, M. Stan, K. Skadron Journal of ILP, October 2005. Importance of Temperature. High power density cooling tech must improve
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CS 7810 Lecture 15 A Case for Thermal-Aware Floorplanning at the Microarchitectural Level K. Sankaranarayanan, S. Velusamy, M. Stan, K. Skadron Journal of ILP, October 2005
Importance of Temperature • High power density cooling tech must improve • Every additional watt increases chip’s cooling/packaging cost by $4 • Higher temperature exponentially higher leakage • Temperature variations cause wear and tear
General Approaches • Reduce overall power consumption • Wait for some unit to reach temperature limit and • then throttle back (dynamic thermal management) • Better floorplans so that heat is evenly distributed • and likelihood of local hotspot is reduced • Better floorplanning does not eliminate the need for DTM
Thermal Modeling • Thermal resistance: models the rate at which heat passes through • Thermal capacity: models the temperature rise because of heat absorption Resistance a thickness / area Capacitance a thickness x area
Effect of Lateral Spreading Thermal resistance = 0 Thermal resistance = infinity
Simulation Setup • Ambient temperature of 40o C • Trigger threshold (when DTM is invoked) 111.8o C • Emergency threshold is 115o C • Alpha core is 6.2mm x 6.2mm – cross-core latency • is 4.21 and 7.16 cyc (on different metal layers) • L2 cache is wrapped around the core to form a • square
Simulated Annealing • In each iteration, perturb the solution with a • probability that equals the difference between • the “quality” of current and optimal solution • What is the metric for “quality”? • ( A + lW ) T • W = S cij dij A is area – some layouts increase the amount of white space W is the performance penalty becoz of wire delays T is peak temperature for the layout d is the distance between units in cyc c reflects the performance impact of that distance
Inputs to Algorithm • Profile a subset of benchmarks to estimate power • density of each block • Profile the performance impact of each set of wire • delays to determine weights
Optimal Floorplans Flp-basic each wire delay gets an equal weight Dead space 1.14% 5.24% Total wire length is longer here Flp-advanced wire delays are weighted
Impact on Peak Temperature Additional temp. reduction becoz of poorer IPC and lower leakage
Comparison with DTM (DVS) DVS: Assumes 10ms overhead for a change DVS-i: Assumes no overhead for a change Emergency threshold
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