Energy consumption and its management and minimization have become primary concerns in the design and implementation of various kinds of systems. This is not only because these systems find their way into an ever increasing number of portable, ubiquitous and power and energy-constrained applications, but also because of problems caused by increased power density. Our focus in this project is on real-time applications for multiprocessor systems such as streaming multimedia. Our research interests include stochastic application models and intelligent energy management schemes which can exploit the information captured by such models. We are exploring algorithmic solutions that will be implemented in hardware and software both at the application and at the operating system level.
This project is a collaborative effort with the Processor Architecture Laboratory and the Microelectronic Systems Laboratory led by Prof. Paolo Ienne and Prof. Yusuf Leblebici at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL).
The following paper from Intel provides more insight on multicore systems and related issues:
Platform 2015: Intel® Processor and Platform Evolution for the Next Decade
Here are a few pictures from a recent visit to EPFL:
