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5.4 Summary<br />

In this section feasibility of predicting complete system power consumption using<br />

processor per<strong>for</strong>mance events is demonstrated. <strong>The</strong> models take advantage of the trickle-<br />

down effect of these events. <strong>The</strong>se events which are visible in the processing unit, are<br />

highly correlated to power consumption in subsystems including memory, chipset, I/O,<br />

disk and microprocessor. Subsystems farther away from the microprocessor require<br />

events more directly related to the subsystem, such as I/O device interrupts or clock<br />

gating status. Memory models must take into account activity that does not originate in<br />

the microprocessor. In this case, DMA events are shown to have a significant relation to<br />

memory power. It is shown that complete system power can be estimated with an<br />

average error of less than 9% <strong>for</strong> each subsystem using per<strong>for</strong>mance events that trickle<br />

down from the processing unit.<br />

<strong>The</strong> trickle-down approach is shown to be effective across system architectures,<br />

manufacturers and time. High accuracy is achieved on systems from both major PC<br />

designers (Intel and AMD), Server and desktop architectures, and across time with<br />

systems from 2005 and <strong>2010</strong> exhibiting comparable accuracy.<br />

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