Mcpat models all three types of power dissipationdynamic, static, and shortcircuit power to give a complete view of the power envelope of multicore processors. Combining power, area, and timing results of mcpat with performance simulation of. Mcpat can also send runtime power dissipation back to the performance simulator through the xmlbasedinterface, so thattheperformance simulator can react to power or even temperature data. Gem5, a state of the art fullsystem simulator, to simulate the digital components of each processing node in the simulated system. A cpugpu heterogeneous simulation framework user guide hyesoon kim jaekyu lee nagesh b. An integrated power, area, and timing modeling framework for multicore and manycore architectures hewlettpackardmcpat. Power modeling for gpu architectures using mcpat acm. Before calling mcpat to compute runtime power numbers, the performance simulator needs to pass the statistics, namely, the activity factors of each individual components to mcpat via the xml interface. An integrated power, area, and timing modeling framework for multicore and manycore architectures.
We demonstrate the power of snipermcpat which is a hardwarevalidated, accurate for both performance and power, parallel simulator that can run multi. This mcpat version natively supports percore voltages, removing the need for the core voltage override patch. Microarchitectural simulation of embedded core heterogeneity with. Performance simulator can only capture partial stats and pass them to mcpat, while mcpat. The computation phase of mcpat is called by mcpat or the performance simulator during simulation to generate runtime power numbers. Mcpat models together power, area and timing of mul ticore and manycore architectures, supporting both inorder and outoforder pipelines. Mcpat beta source code can be obtained by downloading the gziped tar files. Power system simulator is graphical editor for power system modelling. Lakshminarayana jaewoong sim jieun lim tri pho hparch research group. Mcpat models timing, area, and dynamic, shortcircuit, and leakage power for each of the device types forecast in the itrs roadmap including bulk cmos, soi, and doublegate transistors. How to get counter values need to be configured in xml file which is needs to be provided as input. The version of mcpat that is installed with sniper is based on mcpat available from hp, with the patches listed below for increased performance and functionality. You also need to provide the output values to mcpat as an xml file, since mcpat takes xml files as input.
Application implements element connections in natural way. Combining power, area, and timing results of mcpat with performance simulation of parsec benchmarks at the 22nm technology node for both common. Poweraware multicore simulation for early design stage. Mcpat can also send runtime power dissipation results back to the performance simulator through the xmlbased interface, so. In proceedings of the 42 nd annual ieeeacm international symposium on microarchitecture. Predictive simulation software power management system. Mcpat proceedings of the 42nd annual ieeeacm international.
Combined with a performance simulator, mcpat enables architects to consistently quantify the cost of new. Mcpat has a flexible xml interface to facilitate its use with many performance simulators. Power analysis and optimizations for gpu architecture using a power simulator. What is the process to carry out power simulation of any benchmark program using mcpat simulator.
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