Impact of Webpage Access on the Design of Single-Chip Heterogeneous Multiprocessors

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dc.contributor.authorSomers, Marc Stevenen
dc.contributor.committeechairPaul, JoAnn M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMartin, Thomas L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberPatterson, Cameron D.en
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:34:47Zen
dc.date.adate2007-05-25en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:34:47Zen
dc.date.issued2007-04-27en
dc.date.rdate2007-05-25en
dc.date.sdate2007-05-02en
dc.description.abstractMobile devices are currently designed similar to embedded systems where performance is derived from a specification that allows the device to interact in a periodic manner with the environment. However, as mobile devices increasingly interact with the Internet they exhibit a different style of computing that does not fit the embedded system model. At the same time, a mobile device designer needs to consider many different issues such as the number and types of processors, scheduling strategies, applications, power consumption, and dimensions of the device, which increase the total number of design decisions at an alarming rate. This research shows that by using a more realistic model of mobile devices using webpage-based benchmarks, customization can allow specialized architectures to improve performance up to 70 percent over a homogeneous multiprocessor composed of general purpose processors and 25 percent additional improvement over the next best architecture when individual user preferences were also considered. Webpage access, to include user profiling for individual utilization, is clearly a significant factor in the design of mobile devices — and thus should be included in future benchmarks based upon webpage content and webpage access patterns. When new evaluation techniques are developed, new design strategies can be discovered and employed.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05022007-144636en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05022007-144636/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/32107en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartmsomers_thesis_etd_mod.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectwebpage profilingen
dc.subjectcustom schedulingen
dc.subjectsingle chip heterogeneous multiprocessoren
dc.subjectmobile system benchmarksen
dc.subjectmobile computer architectureen
dc.titleImpact of Webpage Access on the Design of Single-Chip Heterogeneous Multiprocessorsen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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