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8.2 System-Level Power Characterization<br />

Existing workload power studies of computing systems consider the various levels:<br />

microarchitecture [IsMa03] [Be00] [NaHa03], subsystem [BoEl02] [MaVa04] [FeGe05-<br />

1], or complete system [ChAn01]. This disseration targets the subsystem level and<br />

extends previous studies <strong>by</strong> considering a larger number of subsystems. Unlike existing<br />

subsystem studies that analyze power on desktop or mobile uniprocessor systems, this<br />

dissertation considers multi-core, multi-socket, desktop, mobile and server systems.<br />

Studies at the microarchitecture level [IsMa03] [Be00] utilize per<strong>for</strong>mance monitoring<br />

counters to estimate the contribution to microprocessor power consumption due to the<br />

various functional units. <strong>The</strong>se studies only consider uniprocessor power consumption<br />

and use scientific workloads only. Since power is measured through a proxy it is not as<br />

accurate as direct measurement. Natarajan [NaHa03] per<strong>for</strong>ms simulation to analyze<br />

power consumption of scientific workloads at the functional unit level.<br />

At the subsystem level, [BoEl02] [MaVa04] [FeGe05-1] consider power consumption in<br />

three different hardware environments. Bohrer [BoEl02] considers CPU, hard disk, and<br />

combined memory and I/O in a uniprocessor personal computer. <strong>The</strong> workloads<br />

represent typical webserver functions such as http, financial, and proxy servicing. This<br />

disseration adds multiprocessors, and considers memory and I/O separately. Mahesri and<br />

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