A Survey of Dynamic Thermal Management and Power Consumption Estimation

This paper represents a survey of the research context behind the paper Balancing Power Consumption in Multiprocessor Systems [15] by A. Merkel and F. Bellosa, presented at EuroSys06. Power dissipation is becoming an increasing problematic side effect of power consumption in computing systems. Contemporary cooling infrastructures are close to their limits and costs are ever increasing. The survey is intended to give a brief overview of different dynamic thermal management approaches and how they are leveraged towards designing economical systems while maintaining performance. It outlines various energy estimation techniques as a basic prerequisite for efficient energy-aware management at run-time. Software Systems Seminar, University of Salzburg, Austria, Summer 2007