Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: leaves 161-168.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1982. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics; and, (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1979. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND SCIENCE. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Lee Parks. / B.S.

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The shift to manycore architectures has highlighted the need for runtime power and performance management schemes to improve the reliability, performance, and energy-efficiency of processors. However, the design of management algorithms is challenging since power and performance are strongly dependent on the workload, which cannot be determined apriori and exhibit wide and rapid runtime variations. This dissertation seeks to show that sensitivity analysis (derivative estimation) provides runtime power and performance information that enables the design of adaptive and low-complexity management algorithms. The contributions of the dissertation include: 1) controllers that achieve rapid regulation of the power and throughput of processor cores, 2) a chip-level power control solution that maximizes the performance of manycore processors subject to the power constraints set by the cooling system, and 3) an iterative algorithm for optimizing the energy consumption of cache memories. The proposed algorithms use runtime derivative estimation to adapt to the rapid power and performance variations caused by workload, and their efficacy is demonstrated via formal analysis and simulation experiments.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tasmania, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-77).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-76). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2010. / Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed April 21, 2010) Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-134).