ESKIMO: Energy savings using semantic knowledge of inconsequential memory occupancy for DRAM subsystem

• Main Authors: Ciji Isen, Lizy John
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: and energy savings. General Terms Management; Performance; Design; Experimentation. Keywords Memory power and energy; cross-boundary or cross-layer architecture optimizations; allocated; Freed; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.300.4116; http://lca.ece.utexas.edu/pubs/isen_micro09.pdf

Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) is used as the bulk of the main memory in most computing systems and its energy and power consumption has become a first-class design consideration for modern systems. We propose ESKIMO, a scheme where when the program or operating systems memory manager allocates...