Benchmarking for power consumption monitoring: Description of benchmarks designed to expose power usage characteristics of parallel hardware systems, and preliminary results

摘要

This paper presents a set of benchmarks that are designed to measure power consumption in parallel systems. The benchmarks range from low-level, single instructions or operations, to small kernels. In addition to describing the motivation behind developing the benchmarks and the design principles that were followed, the paper also introduces a metric to quantify the power-performance of a parallel system. Initial results are presented and help to illustrate the contribution of the paper.