Autopilot: Enabling easy Benchmarking of Workload Energy Efficiency

Benchmarking of energy efficiency is important as it helps researchers, customers, and developers to evaluate and compare the energy efficiency of software and hardware solutions. Developing and deploying energy-efficiency benchmarking workloads are challenging tasks, as work must be able to be executed in a power measurement environment using an energy-efficiency measurement methodology.The existing SPEC Chauffeur Worklet Development Kit (WDK) enables the development and use of custom workloads (called worklets) within a standardized power measurement methodology. However, it features no integration in development environments, making building and deployment of workloads challenging. We address this challenge by proposing Autopilot, a plugin for the Eclipse IDE. Autopilot enables fast and easy building and deployment of a workload under development on a system for testing. It also enables benchmark execution directly from the development environment.