Energy-Efficient Computing - COEN 289 - Fall 2012

Course Info

• Lecturer: Prof. Silvia Figueira (sfigueira@scu.edu)
• Classes: Wed, 5:10-7pm
  
• Office Hours: MWF, 11am-12pm
• Work: project I (proposal: 10% -- paper and presentation: 30%), project II (paper and presentation: 30%), final (30%)

Important Dates

• Week 3 -- Project I, proposal -- 1 paragraph explaining the problem
• Week 5 -- Project I, final -- 2-page paper and presentation in class
• Week 8 -- Project II -- 2-page paper and presentation in class
• Final's week -- Final

Bulletin-Board

Syllabus

• Energy-Efficient Techniques
  • Operating Systems
  • Storage
  • Compilers
  • Networks
  • Data Centers

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1: 9/19 - slides - paper
• Lecture 2: 9/26 - slides
• Lecture 3: 9/26 - slides - paper
• Lecture 4: 10/3 - slides - paper 1 - paper 2 - paper 3
• Lecture 5: 10/10 - slides - paper
• Lecture 6: 10/31 - slides - paper 1 - paper 2
• Lecture 7: 10/31 - slides - paper
• Lecture 8: 11/28 - slides - paper 1 - paper 2
• Lecture 9: 11/28 - slides - paper

Projects

Project 2 - Paper
Choose a paper from IGCC 11 or 12 or from GreenCom 10 or 11. Send me the title as soon as possible, FCFS!
A 2-page paper is due on 11/7, when you should also give a 5-min ppt presentation.
The presentation should include the problem, the solution, some interesting details, and results.

Paper Selection:

• Power Reduction Scheme of Fans in a Blade System by Considering the Imbalance of CPU Temperatures (GreenCom'10) -- Justin Grant
• A Distributed Approach to Taming Peak Demand (IGCC'12) -- Geri Lamble
• PCOUNT: A power aware fetch policy in Simultaneous Multithreading processors (IGCC'11) -- Janelle Tavares
• Exploring memory energy optimizations in smartphones (IGCC'11) -- Sandhya Pappu and Vedika Joshi Dani
• Queue Management in Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETS) (GreenCom'10) -- Rima Deodhar and Shruti Naik
• Managing hardware power saving modes for high performance computing (IGCC'11) -- Arturo Posadas
• Using compression energy efficiently in mobile environment (GreenCom'10) -- Nadia Sobnom
• Techniques for an energy aware parallel file system (IGCC'12) -- Shreya Kunjir and Nitisha Putti
• Energy-Aware Video Storage and Retrieval in Server Environments (IGCC'11) -- Presha Shah and Makara Jyothi Sanghishetty
• Runtime architecture adaptation for energy management in embedded real-time systems (IGCC'12) -- Preeti Chauhan
• Are Sleep States Effective in Data Centers (IGCC'12) -- Laura Asad
• Scheduling and mapping of periodic tasks on multi-core embedded systems with energy harvesting (IGCC'11) -- Yuval Prag
• Auctioning game based Demand Response scheduling in smart grid (GreenCom'11) -- Gilbert Frye
• Low-cost Estimation of Sub-system Power (IGCC'12) -- Suresh Rajashekara
• Saving Energy in LAN Switches: New Methods of Packet Coalescing for Energy Efficient Ethernet (IGCC'11) -- Jason Heimann
• Managing hardware power saving modes for high performance computing (IGCC'11) -- Kalpesh Marlecha
• Comparing the Power of Full Disk Encryption Alternatives (IGCC'12) -- Doug Renfro
• Energy-Efficient Web Access on Mobile Devices (GreenCom'10) -- Iqbal Zaveri
• Energy Consumption Analysis of Parallel Sorting Algorithms Running on Multicore Systems (IGCC'12) -- Eduardo Martorano
• Cost-Effective Routing for a Greener Internet (GreenCom'10) -- Praneeth Kapuganti
• Energy-efficient memory management in virtual machine environments (IGCC'11) -- Pranav Nandedkar

COEN 289 -- Learning Outcomes

1. Understand the fundamentals of energy-efficient computing.
2. Understand energy-efficient operating systems.
3. Understand energy-efficient compilers.
4. Understand energy-efficient networks.
5. Understand energy-efficient data centers.
6. Understand energy-efficient storage.
7. Read, summarize, and present research papers.