Monsoon: Energy-Efficient Computing

This project aims to develop a framework, called Monsoon, for energy and thermal efficient computing in high-performance embedded systems. The key concept in our approach is to leverage on the inherent characteristics of many modern applications (e.g., media processing, recognition and data mining, machine learning) to tolerate imprecise and approximate solutions. We exploit this approximate nature of contemporary and future applications through context-dependent synergistic adaptation of the both the application and the architecture to achieve energy savings and improve thermal profile while meeting the quality of service (QoS) guarantees.





People:

  • Tulika Mitra
  • Thannirmalai Somu Muthukaruppan
  • Mihai Pricopi
  • V Vanchinathan
  • Anuj Pathania
  • Jiao Qing

Collaborator:

  • Sanjay Vishin,CSR
  • JU Lei, Shandong University

Representative Publications:

[DAC] Hierarchical Power Management for Asymmetric Multi-Core in Dark Silicon Era
Thannirmalai Somu Muthukaruppan, Mihai Pricopi, V Vanchinathan, Tulika Mitra, Sanjay Vishin
50th Design Automation Conference, June 2013

[VLSI] Lifetime Reliability Aware Architectural Adaptation
Thannirmalai Somu Muthukaruppan and Tulika Mitra
26th International Conference on VLSI Design, January 2013
Best Paper Award Nomination

[ICCAD] A Hybrid Local-Global Approach for Multi-Core Thermal Management
Ramkumar Jayaseelan, Tulika Mitra
International Conference on Computer-aided Design, November 2009

Temperature Aware Scheduling for Embedded Processors
Ramkumar Jayaseelan, Tulika Mitra
Journal of Low Power Electronics, American Scientific Publisher, 5(3), October 2009
Invited: Special Issue on VLSI Design 2009

[DAC] Dynamic Thermal Management via Architectural Adaptation
Ramkumar Jayaseelan, Tulika Mitra
Design Automation Conference, July 2009

[DAC] A DVS-based Pipelined Reconfigurable Instruction Memory
Zhiguo Ge, Tulika Mitra, Weng-Fai Wong
Design Automation Conference, July 2009

[VLSI] Temperature Aware Scheduling for Embedded Processors
Ramkumar Jayaseelan, Tulika Mitra
International Conference on VLSI Design, January 2009

[ICCAD] Temperature aware Task Sequencing and Voltage Scaling
Ramkumar Jayaseelan, Tulika Mitra
International Conference on Computer-aided Design, November 2008

Funding:

  • Monsoon: Energy and Thermally Efficient Adaptation of Embedded Computing Systems. Academic Research Fund Tier 2, Ministry of Education, 2013-2015
  • Dynamic Thermal Management for Heterogeneous MPSoCs. Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR), 2012-2015