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Offline RL Framework That Dynamically Controls The GPU Clock And Server Fan Speed To Optimize Power Consumption And Computation Time (KAIST)
By Technical Paper Link - 31 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Power Consumption Optimization of GPU Server With Offline Reinforcement Learning" was published by researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and KT Research and Development Center. "Optimizing GPU server power consumption is complex due to the interdependence of various components. Conventional methods often involve trade-offs: in... » read more

Distributed Voltage And Frequency Scaling Gaining Traction
By Ed Sperling - 16 Dec, 2024 - Comments: 0

DVFS has been used in smart phones for more than a decade as a way of trading off power and performance when both are constrained, but much of the semiconductor industry has avoided this technique because it's too difficult to work with. That's starting to change as processing demands increase, driven by the rollout of AI everywhere and an increase in the number of features in advanced packages... » read more

Application-Optimized Processors
By Ed Sperling - 29 Sep, 2023 - Comments: 0

Executing a neural network on top of an NPU requires an understanding of application requirements, such as latency and throughput, as well as the potential partitioning challenges. Sharad Chole, chief scientist and co-founder of Expedera, talks about fine-grained dependencies, why processing packets out of order can help optimize performance and power, and when to use voltage and frequency scal... » read more

Energy-Efficient Execution Scheme For Dynamic Neural Networks on Heterogeneous MPSoCs
By Technical Paper Link - 04 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Map-and-Conquer: Energy-Efficient Mapping of Dynamic Neural Nets onto Heterogeneous MPSoCs" was published (preprint) by researchers at LAMIH/UMR CNRS, Universite Polytechnique Hauts-de-France and UC Irvine. Abstract "Heterogeneous MPSoCs comprise diverse processing units of varying compute capabilities. To date, the mapping strategies of neural networks (NNs) onto ... » read more

Screening For Silent Data Errors
By Anne Meixner - 10 Jan, 2023 - Comments: 0

Engineers are beginning to understand the causes of silent data errors (SDEs) and the data center failures they cause, both of which can be reduced by increasing test coverage and boosting inspection on critical layers. Silent data errors are so named because if engineers don’t look for them, then they don’t know they exist. Unlike other kinds of faulty behaviors, these errors also can c... » read more

Looking Inside Of Chips
By Ed Sperling - 10 Jan, 2023 - Comments: 0

Shai Cohen, co-founder and CEO of proteanTecs, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about how to boost reliability and add resiliency into chips and advanced packaging. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: Several years ago, no one was thinking about on-chip monitoring. What's changed? Cohen: Today it is obvious that a solution is needed for optimizing performanc... » read more

Variability Becoming More Problematic, More Diverse
By Karen Heyman - 12 Dec, 2022 - Comments: 0

Process variability is becoming more problematic as transistor density increases, both in planar chips and in heterogeneous advanced packages. On the basis of sheer numbers, there are many more things that can wrong. “If you have a chip with 50 billion transistors, then there are 50 places where a one-in-a-billion event can happen,” said Rob Aitken, a Synopsys fellow. And if Intel’s... » read more

How Climate Change Affects Data Centers
By Marie C. Baca - 25 Aug, 2022 - Comments: 0

Data centers are hot, and they may get even hotter. As climate change impacts temperatures around the world, designers are changing the computing hubs that are tied to nearly every aspect of modern life to make them more efficient, more customized, and potentially more disaggregated. These shifts are taking on new urgency as the tech industry grapples with months of sweltering temperatures o... » read more

Effectiveness of a Reinforcement-Learning Based Dynamic Power Manager In a SW Framework
By Technical Paper Link - 13 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

New technical paper titled "Low-Overhead Reinforcement Learning-Based Power Management Using 2QoSM" from researchers at ETH Zurich and Georgia Tech. Abstract "With the computational systems of even embedded devices becoming ever more powerful, there is a need for more effective and pro-active methods of dynamic power management. The work presented in this paper demonstrates the effectiven... » read more

Hertzbleed: A New Family of Side-Channel Attacks–Root Case: Dynamic Frequency Scaling
By Technical Paper Link - 01 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

  New research paper titled "Hertzbleed: Turning Power Side-Channel Attacks Into Remote Timing Attacks on x86" from researchers at UT Austin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and University of Washington can be found here. (preprint). This paper will be presented at the 31st USENIX Security Symposium (Boston, 10–12 August 2022). Summary explanation of the Hertzbleed ... » read more

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