In:
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Vol. 19, No. 4 ( 2014-08), p. 1-23
Abstract:
Dynamic power management has become an imperative design factor to attain the energy efficiency in modern systems. Among various power management schemes, learning-based policies that are adaptive to different environments and applications have demonstrated superior performance to other approaches. However, they suffer the scalability problem for multiprocessors due to the increasing number of cores in a system. In this article, we propose a scalable and effective online policy called MultiLevel Reinforcement Learning (MLRL). By exploiting the hierarchical paradigm, the time complexity of MLRL is O ( n lg n ) for n cores and the convergence rate is greatly raised by compressing redundant searching space. Some advanced techniques, such as the function approximation and the action selection scheme, are included to enhance the generality and stability of the proposed policy. By simulating on the SPLASH-2 benchmarks, MLRL runs 53% faster and outperforms the state-of-the-art work with 13.6% energy saving and 2.7% latency penalty on average. The generality and the scalability of MLRL are also validated through extensive simulations.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1084-4309
,
1557-7309
Language:
English
Publisher:
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication Date:
2014
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1501152-5
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