Practical Dynamic Thermal Management on Intel Desktop Computer

The goal of our research was to develop a test platform that can be used to validate theoretical results on DTM under well-controlled conditions, to identify the limitations of existing theoretical results, and also to develop new and practical DTM techniques. This dissertation details the background and our research efforts in this endeavor. Specifically, in our research, we first developed a customized test platform based on an Intel desktop. We then tested a number of related theoretical works and examined their limitations under the practical hardware environment. With these limitations in mind, we developed a new reactive thermal management algorithm for single-core computing systems to optimize the throughput under a peak temperature constraint. We further extended our research to a multicore platform and developed an effective proactive DTM technique for throughput maximization on multicore processor based on task migration and dynamic voltage frequency scaling technique. The significance of our research lies in the fact that our research complements the current extensive theoretical research in dealing with increasingly critical thermal problems.

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Dr. Guanglei Liu is currently a master's student in the Department of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Florida International University, Miami in August 2012, and his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Harbin University, China in 2007.