skip to main content
10.1145/2525526acmconferencesBook PagePublication PagessospConference Proceedingsconference-collections
HotPower '13: Proceedings of the Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems
ACM2013 Proceeding
Publisher:
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • New York
  • NY
  • United States
Conference:
SOSP '13: ACM SIGOPS 24th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles Farmington Pennsylvania November 3 - 6, 2013
ISBN:
978-1-4503-2458-8
Published:
03 November 2013
Sponsors:
Recommend ACM DL
ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER?SIGN IN
Next Conference
October 13 - 16, 2025
Seoul , Republic of Korea
Abstract

No abstract available.

Proceeding Downloads

Skip Table Of Content Section
SESSION: Mobile systems
research-article
On death, taxes, and sleep disorder bugs in smartphones
Article No.: 1, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2525526.2525845

According to Benjamin Franklin, life holds but two certainties, death and taxes. As we enter the mobile era, the primary mobile device, i.e., the smartphone, faces the certainties of adopting agressive sleeping polices to conserve battery energy, ...

research-article
Why application errors drain battery easily?: a study of memory leaks in smartphone apps
Article No.: 2, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2525526.2525846

Mobile operating systems embrace new mechanisms that reduce energy consumption for common usage scenarios. The background app design is a representative implemented in all major mobile OSes. The OS keeps apps that are not currently interacting with the ...

research-article
How much energy can we save from prefetching ads?: energy drain analysis of top 100 apps
Article No.: 3, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2525526.2525848

Recently, there has been a surge of interests on developing techniques and architectures for prefetching ads to potentially reduce the smartphone energy drain by 3G/4G radios from fetching ads. Despite the development of prefetching techniques, it ...

SESSION: Datacenter & cloud
research-article
Cooperative control architecture of fan-less servers and fresh-air cooling in container servers for low power operation
Article No.: 4, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2525526.2525844

In order to minimize the container server power consumption, a new cooling system that incorporates fan-less servers and fresh-air cooling is proposed.

In a conventional container data center, the required air flow for sever cooling is supplied by both ...

research-article
No more electrical infrastructure: towards fuel cell powered data centers
Article No.: 5, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2525526.2525853

We consider the use of fuel cells for powering data centers, based on benefits in reliability, capital and operational costs, and reduced environmental emissions. Using fuel cells effectively in data centers introduces several challenges and we ...

research-article
Greening the compute cloud's pricing plans
Article No.: 6, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2525526.2525855

Customers are levied a charge by the cloud service providers for using their services and the attractiveness of the offered pricing plan is one of the key determinants in the cloud adoption. The paper presents a synergistic cloud where the pricing plan, ...

research-article
Coordinate page allocation and thread group for improving main memory power efficiency
Article No.: 7, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2525526.2525851

Main Memory is responsible for a large and increasing fraction of the energy consumed by multi-core systems. Therefore, it is critical to address the power issue in the memory subsystem. In this paper, we present a solution to improve memory power ...

SESSION: Beyond CPU
research-article
Evaluating integrated graphics processors for data center workloads
Article No.: 8, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2525526.2525847

More than 90% of consumer computers use integrated graphics processors. In these processors, the CPU and the GPU share the same physical memory. Due to high density, good power efficiency, and low cost, integrated graphics processors are promising ...

research-article
Exploiting processor heterogeneity for energy efficient context inference on mobile phones
Article No.: 9, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2525526.2525856

In recent years we have seen the emergence of context-aware mobile sensing apps which employ machine learning algorithms on real-time sensor data to infer user behaviors and contexts. These apps are typically optimized for power and performance on the ...

research-article
A measurement study of GPU DVFS on energy conservation
Article No.: 10, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2525526.2525852

Nowadays, GPUs are widely used to accelerate many high performance computing applications. Energy conservation of such computing systems has become an important research topic. Dynamic voltage/frequency scaling (DVFS) is proved to be an appealing method ...

SESSION: New ideas in power management
research-article
Towards better CPU power management on multicore smartphones
Article No.: 11, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2525526.2525849

Although multicore smartphones have become increasingly mainstream, it is unclear whether and how smartphone applications can utilize multicore CPUs to improve performance. In this paper we study the performance of mobile applications using multicore ...

research-article
Mobile multicores: use them or waste them
Article No.: 12, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2525526.2525850

Energy management is a primary consideration in the design of modern smartphones, made more interesting by the recent proliferation of multi-core processors in this space. We investigate how core offlining and DVFS can be used together on these systems ...

research-article
Racing and pacing to idle: an evaluation of heuristics for energy-aware resource allocation
Article No.: 13, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2525526.2525854

We examine the problem of assigning computing resources to an application to meet a performance goal while minimizing energy consumption. We present a general formulation of this problem as a linear program, discuss several potential heuristic solutions,...

Index terms have been assigned to the content through auto-classification.

Recommendations

Acceptance Rates

HotPower '13 Paper Acceptance Rate 13 of 38 submissions, 34%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 20 of 50 submissions, 40%
YearSubmittedAcceptedRate
HotPower '1512758%
HotPower '13381334%
Overall502040%