Green software development for multi-core architectures

Author

Diniz Rossi, Fabio ; Gomes Xavier, Miguel ; D´Agostini Conte, Endrigo ; Ferreto, Tiago ; De Rose, C.A.F.

Author_Institution

Pontiphical Catholic Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

23-26 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Advances in computer architecture to provide higher parallelism (e.g. hyper threading and multi-core) usually incur in higher complexity in software development. Applications should be designed to use efficiently the additional resources in order to improve its performance. However, the popularity of mobile devices and recent studies in IT-related energy consumption have driven software developers to focus also on energy efficiency. Besides improving applications´ performance, software developers should aim at minimizing the amount of energy consumed by the applications. Energy saving becomes an important non-functional requirement for new applications. This paper evaluates the behavior of applications on multi-core architectures and proposes energy-saving alternatives for software development.

Keywords

computer architecture; multiprocessing systems; software engineering; IT-related energy consumption; computer architecture; energy efficiency; energy saving; green software development; mobile devices; multicore architectures; parallelism; software developers; Benchmark testing; Energy consumption; Instruction sets; Multicore processing; Power demand; energy efficiency; hyper-threading; multi-core; software development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communication (ISCC), 2014 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Funchal

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2014.6912565

Filename

6912565