Skip to main content
SHARE
Publication

Power Signature Analysis of the SPECpower_ssj2008 Benchmark...

by Chung-hsing Hsu, Stephen W Poole
Publication Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
Conference Name
The 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software
Conference Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Conference Date
-

As the power consumption of a server system becomes a mainstream concern in enterprise environments, understanding the system's power behavior at varying utilization levels provides us a key to select appropriate energy-efficiency optimizations. In this work, we present an in-depth analysis of 177 SPECpower_ssj2008 results published between 2007--2010 to understand the changes of server's power behavior over time. In particular, we identified simple nonlinear functions appropriate for modeling the power behavior of today's, aggressively power-managed, machines. We consider this work as an important first step towards developing capability for power signature analysis of a high-end computer system.