The impact of performance asymmetry in emerging multicore architectures

By Saisanthosh Balakrishnan, Ravi Rajwar, Mike Upton, K. Lai. International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2005

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Conservation cores: reducing the energy of mature computations (2010, background): “Recent work on single-ISA heterogeneous multi-core processors [5, 14, 17, 22, 24] investigates the power and performance trade-offs for CMPs with non-uniform cores.”
Core fusion: accommodating software diversity in chip multiprocessors (2007, background): “Asymmetric chip multiprocessors (ACMPs) [3, 23, 24] comprise cores of varying sizes and computational capabilities.”
Techniques for Multicore Thermal Management: Classification and New Exploration (2006, background): ““Performance asymmetry” is the characteristic of workloads to show very diﬀerent performance characteristics depending on the choice of applications, and it is a clear characteristic of emerging multicore applications [2].”
Variation-Aware Application Scheduling and Power Management for Chip Multiprocessors (2008, background): “[1] study how heterogeneous CMPs impact parallel workloads.”
Cooperative Caching for Chip Multiprocessors (2006, background): “Future research should explore the benefits of heterogeneous cache designs and understand its implication to parallel applications, operating systems, and end-users [10].”
Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era (2008, background): “An alternative to a symmetric multicore chip is an asymmetric (or heterogeneous) multicore chip where one or more cores are more powerful than the others [3, 8, 9, 10, 14].”