Processor Speed Control With Thermal Constraints
Mutapcic, A.; Boyd, S.; Murali, S.; Atienza, D.; De Micheli, G.; Gupta, R.
Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on
Volume 56, Issue 9, Sept. 2009 Page(s):1994 - 2008
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TCSI.2008.2011589
Summary:We consider the problem of adjusting speeds of multiple computer processors, sharing the same thermal environment, such as a chip or multichip package. We assume that the speed of each processor (and associated variables such as power supply voltage) can be controlled, and we model the dissipated power of a processor as a positive and strictly increasing convex function of the speed. We show that the problem of processor speed control subject to thermal constraints for the environment is a convex optimization problem. We present an efficient infeasible-start primal-dual interior-point method for solving the problem. We also present a distributed method, using dual decomposition. Both of these approaches can be interpreted as nonlinear static control laws, which adjust the processor speeds based on the measured temperatures in the system. We give numerical examples to illustrate performance of the algorithms.
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