Date of Award
2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S. in Engineering Science
Department
Computer and Information Science
First Advisor
Byunghyun Jang
Second Advisor
Philip J. Rhodes
Third Advisor
Dawn Wilkins
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
As General Purpose GPUs (GPGPU) are increasingly becoming a prominent component of high performance computing platforms, power and thermal dissipation are getting more attention. The trade-offs among performance, power, and heat must be well modeled and evaluated from the early stage of GPU design. This necessitates a tool that allows GPU architects to quickly and accurately evaluate their design. There are a few models for GPU power but most of them estimate power at a higher level than architecture, which are therefore missing hardware reconfigurability. In this thesis, we propose a framework that models power and heat dissipation at the hardware architecture level, which allows for configuring and investigating individual hardware components. Our framework is also capable of visualizing the heat map of the processor over different clock cycles. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive framework that integrates and visualizes power consumption and heat dissipation of GPUs.
Recommended Citation
Hassan, Md Mainul, "Power And Hotspot Modeling For Modern GPUs" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 449.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/449
Concentration/Emphasis
Emphasis: Computer Science