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This article presents an empirical evaluation of power consumption of synthetic benchmarks in multicore computing systems. The study aims at providing an insight of the main power consumption characteristics of different applications when executing over current high performance computing servers. Three types of applications are studied executing individually and simultaneously on the same server. Intel and AMD architectures are studied in an experimental setting for evaluating the overall power consumption of each application. The main results indicate the power consumption behavior has a strong dependency with the type of application. An additional performance analysis shows that the best load of the server regarding energy efficiency depends on the type of the applications, with efficiency decreasing in heavily loaded situations. These results allow characterizing applications according to power consumption, efficiency, and resource sharing, and provide useful information for resource management and scheduling policies.
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Muraña, J., Nesmachnow, S., Iturriaga, S., Tchernykh, A. (2018). Power Consumption Characterization of Synthetic Benchmarks in Multicores. In: Mocskos, E., Nesmachnow, S. (eds) High Performance Computing. CARLA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 796. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73353-1_2
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