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Thermal Characterization of Cloud Workloads on a Power-Efficient Server-on-Chip

Milojevic, Dragomir
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Idgunji, Sachin
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Jevdjic, Djordje  
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2012
Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design
30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design

We propose a power-efficient many-core server-on-chip system with 3D-stacked Wide I/O DRAM targeting cloud workloads in datacenters. The integration of 3D-stacked Wide I/O DRAM on top of a logic die increases available memory bandwidth by using dense and fast Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs) instead of off-chip IOs, enabling faster data transfers at much lower energy per bit. We demonstrate a methodology that includes full-system microarchitectural modeling and rapid virtual physical prototyping with emphasis on the thermal analysis. Our findings show that while executing CPU-centric benchmarks (e.g. SPECInt and Dhrystone), the temperature in the server-on-chip (logic+DRAM) is in the range of 175-200C at a power consumption of less than 20W, exceeding the reliable operating bounds without any cooling solutions, even with embedded cores. However, with real cloud workloads, the power density in the server-on-chip remains much below the temperatures reached by the CPU-centric workloads as a result of much lower power burnt by memory-intensive cloud workloads. We show that such a server-on-chip system is feasible with a low-cost passive heat sink eliminating the need for a high-cost active heat sink with an attached fan, creating an opportunity for overall cost and energy savings in datacenters.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ICCD.2012.6378637
Author(s)
Milojevic, Dragomir
Idgunji, Sachin
Jevdjic, Djordje  
Ozer, Emre
Lotfi-Kamran, Pejman  
Panteli, Andreas
Prodromou, Andreas
Nicopoulos, Chrysostomos
Hardy, Damien
Falsafi, Babak  
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2012

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Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design
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978-1-4673-3051-0

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30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

September 30 - October 3, 2012

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February 9, 2013
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/88752
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