NSF Small supports phase-based tuning for performance-asymmetric multicores

August 01, 2011

The National Science Foundation is supporting work on phase-based tuning for better use of performance-asymmetric multicore processors. Modern chips mix fast and slow cores, and a program moves through phases with different needs; matching the two can improve performance and energy use.

The project, part of the lab’s Sapha line, studies how to tune software to its phases and to the hardware it runs on.

This work is part of Modularity and Modular Reasoning. Details are on the NSF award page.