Verified Instruction-Level Energy Consumption Measurement for NVIDIA GPUs

1. Energy consumption measurement for the different instructions that can execute in modern NVIDIA GPUs

2. Accurate measurement of any GPU kernel's energy consumption using Multi-Threaded Synchronized Monitoring (MTSM)

Hardware Dependencies

• A GPU device with compute capabilty = 3.5 or later (Kepler architecture)

Software Dependencies

• Cuda v.10.1 or later
• GCC v.7 or later
• make

In this Repository

• Instructions_Microbenchmarks: PTX microbenchmarks to stress the GPU and compute the energy consumption of each instruction using MTSM technique

• SMA: Query the GPU's onboard power sensors to read the instantaneous power usage of the GPU device using NVML - Sampling Monitoring Approach running in the background

• MTSM: Compute the energy consumption of any GPU Kernel using Multi-Threaded Synchronized Monitoring (MTSM)

Paper

• [CF ’20] Verified Instruction-Level Energy Consumption Measurement for NVIDIA GPUs

• If you find this code useful in your research, please consider citing as:

@inproceedings{Arafa2020GPUEnergy,
  author = {Y. {Arafa} and A. {ElWazir} and A. {ElKanishy} and Y. {Aly} and A. {Elsayed} and A. {Badawy} 
  and G. {Chennupati} and S. {Eidenbenz} and N. {Santhi}},
  title = {Verified Instruction-Level Energy Consumption Measurement for NVIDIA GPUs},
  year = {2020},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers},
  series = {CF’20},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3387902.3392613},
  doi = {10.1145/3387902.3392613},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA}
}

Classification

GPUs-Energy is part of the original PPT (https://github.com/lanl/PPT) and is Unclassified and contains no Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information. It abides with the following computer code from Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Code Name: Performance Prediction Toolkit, C17098
• Export Control Review Information: DOC-U.S. Department of Commerce, EAR99
• B&R Code: YN0100000

License

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