Toward dark silicon in servers

Nikos Hardavellas; Michael Ferdman; Babak Falsafi; Anastasia Ailamaki

doi:10.1109/MM.2011.77

Toward dark silicon in servers

Nikos Hardavellas^*, Michael Ferdman, Babak Falsafi, Anastasia Ailamaki

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Abstract

Server chips will not scale beyond a few tens to low hundreds of cores, and an increasing fraction of the chip in future technologies will be dark silicon that we cannot afford to power. Specialized multicore processors, however, can leverage the underutilized die area to overcome the initial power barrier, delivering significantly higher performance for the same bandwidth and power envelopes.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	5967003
Pages (from-to)	6-15
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Micro
Volume	31
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2011.77
State	Published - Jul 2011

Keywords

Dark silicon
energy
multicore
power
scalability
specialized computing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Hardware and Architecture
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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