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Offloading Datacenter Jobs to RISC-V Hardware for Improved Performance and Power Efficiency

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The end of Moore's Law has brought significant changes in the architecture of servers used in data centers, increasingly incorporating new ISAs beyond x86-64 as well as diverse accelerators. Further, single-board computers have become increasingly efficient and can run certain Linux applications at significantly lower equipment and energy costs compared to traditional servers. Past research has demonstrated that offloading applications at runtime from x86-based servers to ARM-based single-board computers can result in increases in throughput and energy efficiency. The RISC-V architecture has recently gained significant commercial interest, and OS-capable single-board computers with RISC-V cores are increasingly available at the commodity scale.

DOI: 10.1145/3688351.3689152

Authors: Balvansh Heerekar, Cesar Philippidis, Ho-Ren Chuang, Pierre Olivier, Antonio Barbalace, Binoy Ravindran

Institutions: Virginia Tech, University of Manchester, University of Edinburgh

Language: English

Topic: Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

Subfield: Hardware and Architecture

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: gold

Funders: Universitas Brawijaya, Office of Naval Research