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AverageError<br />

=<br />

NumSamples<br />

∑ =<br />

Modeled − Measured<br />

i 1<br />

i<br />

NumSamples<br />

82<br />

i<br />

Measured<br />

i<br />

× 100%<br />

<strong>The</strong> I/O and disk models per<strong>for</strong>med well under all workloads. <strong>The</strong> low error rates are<br />

partly due to low power variation / high idle power consumption. <strong>The</strong> CPU and memory<br />

subsystems had larger errors, but also larger workload variation. <strong>The</strong> worst case errors<br />

<strong>for</strong> CPU occurred in the memory-bound workload: mcf. Due to a high CPI<br />

(cycles/instruction) of greater than ten cycles, the fetch-based power model consistently<br />

underestimates CPU power. This is because under mcf the processor only fetches one<br />

instruction every 10 cycles even though it is continuously searching <strong>for</strong> (and not finding)<br />

ready instructions in the instruction window. For mcf this speculative behavior has a<br />

high power cost that is equivalent to executing an additional 1-2 instructions/cycle.<br />

Table 5.1 Integer Average Model Error<br />

Workload CPU Chipset Memory I/O Disk<br />

Idle 1.74% 0.586% 3.80% 0.356% 0.172%<br />

Gcc 4.23% 10.9% 10.7% 0.411% 0.201%<br />

Mcf 12.3% 7.7% 2.2% 0.332% 0.154%<br />

Vortex 6.53% 13.0% 15.6% 0.295% 0.332%<br />

DBT-2 9.67% 0.561% 2.17% 5.62% 0.176%<br />

SPECjbb 9.00% 7.45% 6.14% 0.393% 0.144%<br />

DiskLoad 5.93% 3.06% 2.93% 0.706% 0.161%<br />

Integer Average<br />

7.06 6.18% 6.22% 1.16% 0.191%<br />

All Workload Average<br />

±3.50%<br />

6.67 %<br />

±3.42%<br />

±4.92%<br />

5.97%<br />

±4.23%<br />

±5.12%<br />

8.80%<br />

±5.54%<br />

±1.97%<br />

0.824%<br />

±1.52%<br />

±0.065%<br />

0.390%<br />

±0.492%<br />

(5.6)

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