Computing in the dark silicon era: Current trends and research challenges

M Shafique, S Garg - IEEE Design & Test, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computing in the Dark Silicon Era: Current Trends and Research Challenges Page 1 2168-2356
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The EDA challenges in the dark silicon era: Temperature, reliability, and variability perspectives

M Shafique, S Garg, J Henkel… - Proceedings of the 51st …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Technology scaling has resulted in smaller and faster transistors in successive technology
generations. However, transistor power consumption no longer scales commensurately with …

Hayat: Harnessing dark silicon and variability for aging deceleration and balancing

D Gnad, M Shafique, F Kriebel, S Rehman… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Elevated power densities result in the so-called Dark Silicon constraint that prohibits
simultaneous activation of all the cores in an on-chip system (in the full performance mode) …

Dynamic thread mapping for high-performance, power-efficient heterogeneous many-core systems

G Liu, J Park, D Marculescu - 2013 IEEE 31st international …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of dynamic thread mapping in heterogeneous many-core
systems via an efficient algorithm that maximizes performance under power constraints …

Dark silicon as a challenge for hardware/software co-design: Invited special session paper

M Shafique, S Garg, T Mitra, S Parameswaran… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Dark Silicon refers to the observation that in future technology nodes, it may only be possible
to power-on a fraction of on-chip resources (processing cores, hardware accelerators, cache …

darknoc: Designing energy-efficient network-on-chip with multi-vt cells for dark silicon

H Bokhari, H Javaid, M Shafique, J Henkel… - Proceedings of the 51st …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we propose a novel NoC architecture, called darkNoC, where multiple layers
of architecturally identical, but physically different routers are integrated, leveraging the extra …

Variability-aware dark silicon management in on-chip many-core systems

M Shafique, D Gnad, S Garg… - 2015 Design, Automation …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dark Silicon refers to the constraint that only a fraction of on-chip resources (cores) can be
simultaneously powered-on (running at full performance) in order to stay within the …

VARSHA: Variation and reliability-aware application scheduling with adaptive parallelism in the dark-silicon era

N Kapadia, S Pasricha - 2015 Design, Automation & Test in …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With deeper technology scaling accompanied by a worsening power-wall, an increasing
proportion of chip area on a chip multiprocessor (CMP) is expected to be occupied by dark …

ASER: Adaptive soft error resilience for reliability-heterogeneous processors in the dark silicon era

F Kriebel, S Rehman, D Sun, M Shafique… - Proceedings of the 51st …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
The Dark Silicon provides opportunities to realize Reliability-Heterogeneous Processors
with ISA compatible cores having different levels of protection against reliability threats (like …

A multi-version approach to conflict resolution in distributed groupware systems

C Sun, D Chen - Proceedings 20th IEEE International …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Groupware systems are a special class of distributed computing systems which support
human-computer-human interaction. Real-time collaborative graphics editors allow a group …