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Predictable GP Us Frequency Scaling
for Energy and Performance
K aijie Fan
T echnische Universität Berlin
[email protected] berlin.de
Biagio Cosenza
T echnische Universität Berlin
Ben Juurlink
T echnische Universität Berlin
ABSTRA CT
Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (D VFS) is an important
solution to balance performance and energy consumption, and
hardware v endors provide management libraries that allow the
programmer to change both memory and core frequencies. The
possibility to manually set these frequencies is a great opportunity
for application tuning, which can focus on the best application-
dependent setting. Howev er , this task is not straightforward be-
cause of the large set of possible configurations and be cause of the
multi-objective nature of the problem, which minimizes energy
consumption and maximizes performance.
This paper proposes a method to predict the b est core and mem-
ory frequency configurations on GP Us for an input Op enCL kernel.
Our modeling approach, based on machine learning, first predicts
spee dup and normalized energy over the default frequency configu-
ration. Then, it combines the two models into a multi-objective one
that predicts a Pareto-set of fr equency configurations. The approach
uses static code features, is built on a set of carefully designed micro-
benchmarks, and can predict the best frequency settings of a new
kernel without executing it. T est results show that our modeling
approach is very accurate on predicting extrema points and Pareto
set for ten out of twelve test benchmarks, and discov er frequency
configurations that dominate the default configuration in either
energy or performance.
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1 IN TRODUCTION
Energy consumption is a major concern of today’s computing plat-
forms. The energy consumed by a program affects the cost of large-
scale compute clusters as well as the battery life of mobile devices
and embedde d systems. Modern processors provide a number of so-
lutions to tackle power and energy constraints such as asymmetric
cores, power and clock gating, and dynamic voltage and fr e quency
scaling (D VFS). The latter , in particular , is very effe ctive in impr ov-
ing energy efficiency until it reaches a voltage and fr equency point
that is close to the threshold voltage; after that point, the energy
efficiency decreases again [15].
In this context, graphics processing units (GP Us) represent an
interesting scenario as they pr ovide high performance, but they
also consume a considerable amount of power . Fortunately , mo dern
GP Us implement D VFS. For instance, the N VIDIA Management
Library (N VML) [
22
] provides a way to r ep ort the board power
draw , power limits, and to dynamically set both core and memor y
frequencies. Being able to tune core and memory frequencies is
very interesting: different applications may show varying energy
consumption and performance with different frequency setting;
e.g., a memory-bounde d application may benefit of core down-
scaling with reduced energy consumption at the same performance.
Howe ver , manually performing such tuning is not easy . For example,
the N VIDIA GTX Titan X supports four memor y frequencies (405,
810, 3304, and 3505 MHz) and 85 core frequencies (fr om 135 to
1392 MHz), with a total number of 219 possible configurations
(note that not all memory-core combinations are supported; e.g., is
not possible to have both maximal core and memory frequency).
Moreover , while energy-per-task is the metric to be minimize d,
we also want our programs to deliv er high p erformance. These
two conflicting goals translate into a multi-objective optimization
problem where ther e is no single optimal solution, but instead a
set of Pareto-optimal solutions, each exposing different trade-off
between energy consumption and performance. This work aims at
predicting the best memor y and core fr equency configurations of
an input OpenCL kernel.
1.1 Motivation
Predicting the best frequency configurations is challenging for dif-
ferent aspects. The large number of settings makes it impractical to
perform an exhaustive search, in particular if it has to be performe d
on many applications. At the same time, the tuning space of such
bi-objective problems present some challenging pr op erties.
Figure 1 shows speedup and normalized energy consumption
for two examples:
k-NN
and
MT
(Mersenne T wister ). These two
applications have been chosen to represent very different behaviors,
but the insights apply to all the tested applications.

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0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
Core frequency (MHz)
0
0.5
1
1.5
Speedup
Mem-H
Mem-h
Mem-l
Mem-L

(a) k -NN Speedup
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
Core frequency (MHz)
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
Normalized Energy
Mem-H
Mem-h
Mem-l
Mem-L

(b) k -NN Energy Consumption
0 0.5 1
Speedup
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
Normalized energy
Mem-H
Mem-h
Mem-l
Mem-L

(c) k -NN Multi-objective
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
Core frequency (MHz)
0
0.5
1
1.5
Speedup
Mem-H
Mem-h
Mem-l
Mem-L

(d) MT Speedup
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
Core frequency (MHz)
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
Normalized Energy
Mem-H
Mem-h
Mem-l
Mem-L

(e) MT Energy Consumption
0 0.5 1
Speedup
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
Normalized energy
Mem-H
Mem-h
Mem-l
Mem-L

(f ) MT Multi-obje ctive
Figure 1: Speedup (a,d), normalized energy consumption ( b ,e) and both (c,f ) of two applications with different memory and
core frequency .
W e tested the four memory settings mentione d above, labeled
for simplicity
L
,
l
,
h
and
H
, each with all supported core frequencies.
The default setting (
mem-H
and core at 1001 MHz) is at the intersec-
tion of the green lines. In terms of spee dup (Fig. 1a),
k-NN
benefits
greatly from cor e scaling. However , this is not true for
MT
(Fig. 1d),
where increasing the cor e frequency do es not improv e p erformance,
while selecting the highest memor y frequency (
mem-H
) does. This
behavior is justified by the larger amount of memor y operations.
On the other hand, (normalized) energy consumption behaves
differently . In
k-NN
(Fig. 1b), for three out of four memory con-
figurations, normalized energy is similar to a parab olic function
with a minimum point in [885,987] MHz: while increasing the core
frequency , first the energy decreases as the computational time is
reduced; but then, the higher frequencies have an impact on en-
ergy in a way that it does not compensate for the improvement on
spee dup. The lo west memory configuration (
mem-L
) seems to show
a similar behavior; howev er , we do not have data at higher core
frequencies to validate it (cor e frequencies larger than 405 MHz are
not supported for
mem-L
; details in Fig. 4a). Moreover , this behavior
depends on the kernel: e.g., in
MT
(Fig. 1e), the increase of energy
consumption with higher core frequencies is larger than k-NN .
Figure 1c and 1f show both energy and performance: as they
behave differently , there is no single optimal configuration. In fact,
this is a multi-objective optimization problem, with a set of Par eto-
optimal solutions. It is important to notice that the baseline default
configuration (black cross) may be not Pareto-optimal (Fig. 1c) or
be only one of more dominant solutions (Fig. 1f). This paper starts
from this observation to derive a multi-objective model that tries
to automatically predict Pareto-optimal frequency configurations
of a new kernel.
1.2 Contributions
The focus of this research is tw o-fold. First, we analyzed how nor-
malized energy and spe edup behave on GP Us applications. The
analysis, based on a large set of codes including real applications
and synthetic micro-kernels, aimed at discovering which pr ogram
properties, in particular static code features, affect the energetic
and performance behavior of a kernel.
The insights of this analysis motivated the design of a predictive
model that is able to select the b est (hop efully Pareto-optimal ) fre-
quency configurations in terms of normalized energy and spe edup.
The predictive framew ork is purely based on static information
extracted from the input OpenCL kernel. Thus, once the model is
built on a set of carefully-designed micro-benchmarks, it is capable
to quickly derive the best configurations for any new application.
This work makes the following contributions:
•
An analysis of the Pareto optimality (performance versus en-
ergy consumption) of GP Us applications on a multi-domain
frequency scaling setting on an N VIDIA Titan X.
•
A modeling approach based on static code features that pre-
dicts core and memory frequency configurations, which are
Pareto-optimal with respect to energy and performance. The
model is built on 106 synthetic micro-benchmarks. It pre-
dicts normalized energy and spe edup with different ad hoc
methods, and then derives a Pareto set of configurations out
of the individual models.
•
An experimental evaluation of the proposed models on twelve
test benchmarks on an N VIDIA Titan X, and a comparison
against the default static settings.

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2 RELA TED W ORK
Energy-performance modeling has received great attention from
the research community . Mei et al. [
21
], in particular , wrote a sur-
vey and measur ement study of GP U D VFS. Ge et al. [
9
] applied
fine-grained GP U core frequency and coarse-grained GP U mem-
ory frequency on a Kepler K20c GP U . Tiwari et al. [
27
] proposed
D VFS strategy b oth in intra-node and inter-node to reduce p ow er
consumption on CP U .
Much work focuses on modeling one single objective, either en-
ergy or performance. In terms of energy efficiency , a numb er of opti-
mization techniques have been recently proposed [
3
,
12
,
19
,
20
,
26
].
Among them, Hamano et al. [
12
] proposed a task scheduling scheme
that optimizes the overall energy consumption of the system. Lopes
et al. [
19
] proposed a model that relies on extensive GP U micro-
benchmarking using a cache-aware roofline model. Song et al. [
26
]
proposed Throttle CT A Scheduling (TCS), which reduces the number
of active cores to impr ove energy-efficiency for memory-b ound
workloads.
In the domain of performance, many evaluation methodologies
based on different architectures hav e been propose d [
13
,
17
,
24
].
Approaches [
23
,
28
] to predict performance by taking D VFS into
consideration have been discussed. Kofler et al. [
16
] and Ge et
al. [
8
] proposed a machine learning approach based on A rtificial
Neural Networks (ANN) that automatically performs heterogeneous
task partitioning. Bhattachary ya et al. [
2
] improv e d performance
model by combining static and dynamic analysis. Mesmay et al. [
6
]
converted online adaptive libraries into offline by automatically
generating heuristics.
ϵ
-P AL [
32
] proposes a machine learning iter-
ative adaptive appr oach that samples the design space to predict a
set of Pareto-optimal solutions with a granularity regulated by a
parameter ϵ .
T able 1: Comparison against the state-of-the-art
Paper Static Pareto-optimal
Frequency
Scaling
Machine
Learning
Grewe et al. [10] ✓ × × ✓
Steen et al. [7] × ✓ × ×
Abe et al. [1] × × ✓ ×
Guerreiro et al. [11] × × ✓ ✓
W u et al. [29] × × ✓ ✓
Our work ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Here we discuss most important related w ork and T able 1 shows
the comparison. Grew e et al. [
10
] used machine learning for a purely
static approach which, how ever , only predicte d task partinioning.
Steen et al. [
7
] presented a micro-architecture independent pro-
filer based on a mechanistic p erformance model on CP U. Ho wever ,
they do not take frequency scale into consideration, which, as al-
ready described in Section 1.1, plays a heav y role on energy and
performance behaving.
Abe et al. [
1
], Guerreiro et al. [
11
] and W u et al. [
29
] proposed
performance and energy models by taking frequency scaling into
consideration. Among them, Abe et al. [
1
] estimated the models
by using performance counters but did not consider the non-linear
scaling effects of the voltage. Guerreir o et al. [
11
] made more im-
prov ement: they not only presented the approach of gathering per-
formance events by micr o-benchmarks in detail, but also predicted
how the GP U voltage scales. W u et al. [
29
] studied the performance
and energy models of an AMD GP U by using K-means clustering.
Nevertheless, all of these appr oaches gathered the hardware
performance counters (features) while running a kernel. In con-
trast, our work focuses on features that can be extracted statically ,
which can be used to estimate the sp eedup and normalize d energy
consumption models of a new kernel without running it. Further-
more, w e figure out the Pareto-optimal solutions of memory-core
frequency configurations of the new kernel. T o the best of our
knowledge, our work is the first to pr e dict Pareto-optimal frequency
configurations on GP U using static models.
3 METHODOLOGY
Our approach to model the energy consumption and spee dup of a
input kernel is based on machine learning methodology , applied
to a feature repr esentation of the kernel co de and of the frequency
domain. This Section describes an overview of the method, followed
by a description of the feature repr esentation, the synthetic training
data, the predictive modeling approach for speedup and energy ,
and how those are used to derive the pr e dicted Pareto set.
3.1 Over view
The methodology proposed by our work is based on a typical two-
phase modeling with super vised learning: in a first training phase
the model is built; later , when a new input code is pro vide d, a
prediction phase infers the best configurations. Fig. 2 and Fig. 3
illustrate the workflow of this w ork,respectively for the training
and prediction phases.
I n p u t c o d e s
T raining code
micro-benchmarks
Extract code features
Execution
Memory a nd
core freq uency
configurat ions
Input
c o d e s
Energy
measurem ents
In codes
Perform ance
Norm. Energy
Model
Speedu p
Model
( 1 )
( 2 )
( 3 )
( 4 )
( 5 )
( 6 )

Figure 2: T raining phase.
Extract code
features Normalized Energy
Pr ediction
I n p u t
c o d e s
Predicted
norm.
energy
I n p u t
c o d e s
Predicted
speedups
P a reto Set
Pr ediction s
Pr edicted P areto
set of frequency
settings
Speedup Pr e diction
Norm. Energy
Model
Speedup
Model
New
code
I n p u t
c o d e s
Memory an d
core frequ ency
configuratio ns
( 1 )
( 2 )
( 5 )
( 6 )
( 7 )
( 8 )
( 9 )
( 3 )
( 4 )

Figure 3: Prediction phase .
The goal of the training phase is to build two separate models
for spee dup and normalized energy . T o do that, a set of OpenCL
micro-benchmarks are pro vided for training (1). For each code

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in the micro-benchmark, a set of static features is extracted (2)
and stored in a static feature data set. Successively , each micro-
benchmark is executed with various frequency configurations (3).
The obtained energy and performance measurements (4), together
with frequency configurations and the static features, are stor e d
in the training data set. Once these steps have been accomplished
for all micro-benchmarks, the features are normalized and used
to train the two models for normalized energy (5) and spe edup
prediction (6).
In the prediction phase, a ne w OpenCL code is provided as input
to the framework. First, its static code features ar e extracted (1). The
static features (2) and the frequency configurations (3) ar e combined
together to form a set of feature vectors, each corresponding to a
specific frequency setting. For each configuration, the previously
trained models (4)(6) are used to predict its normalize d energy
consumptions (5) and spee dup (7). Once the predictions for all
memory configurations are available (8), the dominant points are
calculated and returned as predicted Pareto set (9).
3.2 Features
T o build an accurate predictive model, we define a set of numeri-
cal code features extracted from OpenCL kernels, which are then
conveniently encoded into a feature vector . The feature representa-
tion used by our work is inspired by Guerreiro et al. [
11
], where
features are designed to reflect the modular design and structure
of the GP Us architecture, which allo w them to easily de compose
the power consumption in multiple architectural components [
14
].
These ten features repr esent the numb er of integer and floating
point operations, memor y access on either global or local memor y ,
and special functions such as trigonometric ones.
Formally , a code is represented by the static feature vector
®
k = ( k i n t _ a d d , k i n t _ mu l , k i n t _ d i v , k i n t _ b w ,
k f l o a t _ a d d , k f l o a t _ m u l , k f l o a t _ d i v , k s f ,
k д l _ a c c e s s , k l o c _ a c c e s s )
where each component represents a specific instruction type, e.g.,
integer bitwise (
k i n t _ b w
) or special functions (
k s f
) instructions, or
memory access on either global (
k д l _ a c c e s s
) and local (
k l o c _ a c c e s s
)
memory .
Frequency configurations are also repr esente d as features: the
couple
®
f = ( f c o r e , f m e m )
, where
f c o r e
is the core frequency and
f m e m
is the memory frequency . The frequency values, which lie in
the intervals
[
135
,
1189
]
(cor e) and
[
405
,
3505
]
(memory), are both
linearly mapped into the inter val [ 0 , 1 ] .
The vector
® w = ( ®
k , ®
f )
represents the featur es asso ciated with the
execution of a kernel
®
k
and frequency setting
®
f
. Our final goal is to
predict, for an input kernel
®
k
, a subset of frequency configurations
that is Pareto-optimal.
Instead of encoding the total number of instructions of a given
type, each feature component is normalized over the total num-
ber of instructions. Such a normalization step allow us to have
all features mapped in the same range, so that each feature con-
tributes approximately pr oportionately to the model; as a result,
codes with the same arithmetic intensity but different number of
total instructions will have the same feature r epresentation.
With respect of related work [
10
,
16
], where features ar e ex-
tracted from the AST , we instead implemented the feature extrac-
tion with an LLVM pass running on the intermediate representation
of the kernel.
3.3 Synthetic T raining Benchmarks
Instead of using as training data the existing test benchmarks, we
used a different and separate set of synthetic training codes spe cif-
ically designed for the purpose. In related work, synthetic test
benchmarks have been propose d for generic OpenCL code, e.g.,
using deep learning-based co de synthesis [
5
], or in domain-specific
context such as stencil computations [4].
Our approach is a combination of pattern-based and domain-
specific synthetic co de generation, and is carefully designed around
the feature repr esentation [
11
]. Code benchmarks are generated
by pattern: each pattern covers a specific feature, and generates a
number codes with different instruction intensity (as a consequence,
each pattern is designed to stress a particular component of the
GP Us). For instance, the pattern
b-int-add
includes nine codes
with a variable number of integer addition instructions, from 2
0
to
2
8
. This training code design enables a goo d cov erage of (the static
part of ) the feature space. A dditionally , a set of training b enchmarks
corresponding to a mix of all used features is also taken into account.
Overall, we generated 106 micro-benchmarks.
The training data is represented by each code executed with a
given frequency setting. Each code has been execute d with a subset
of 40 carefully sampled frequency settings, leading to a training
size of 4240 samples. It is important to remark that, for a given
micro-benchmark, it takes 20 minutes to test 40 frequency settings,
70 minutes to test all the 174 frequency settings, making therefore
difficult the exhaustive sear ch of all configurations.
3.4 Predictive Modeling
The final goal of this work is to pr edict which GP Us frequency con-
figurations are best suited for an input OpenCL kernel. A frequency
setting is a combination of a core frequency and memory frequency .
For each setting, we are inter este d in both execution time (in ms)
and energy consumption (in Joule). In this multi-objective context,
there is no single best configuration, but a set of Pareto-optimal
values, each exposing a different trade-off between energy and
performance. This Section explains how our work is capable of
predicting a Pareto set of frequency settings for an input OpenCL
code.
Our approach is based on three key aspects. First, our predictive
model uses machine learning: it is built during a training phase,
and later reused on a new code for inference . Second, the multi-
objective model is split into two single-objective problems, which
are addressed with two mor e sp ecific methods. Third, a final step
derives a set of (multi-objective) configurations out of the tw o
(single-objective) models.
Due to the different behaviors of spee dup and normalized en-
ergy , we tested different kinds of regression models including OLS
(or dinar y least squares linear regression), LASSO and SVR ( supp ort
vector regression) for speedup modeling, and polynomial regres-
sion and SVR for normalized energy modeling. Be cause of the more

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accurate results, in this section we only report about SVR with
different kernels.
In general, given a training data set
( ® w 1 , y 1 ) , . . . , ( ® w n , y n )
, where
® w i
is a feature vector and
y i
the observed value (e.g., either speedup
or energy), the SVR model is repr esente d by the following function:
f ( ® w ) =
n
Õ
i = 1
( α i − α ∗
i ) K ( ® w , ® w i ) + b (1)
where
b
refers to the bias,
α i
and
α ∗
i
are Lagrange multipliers
that are obtained by solving the associated dual optimization prob-
lem [
25
].
K ( ® w i , ® w j )
is the kernel function, which will be spe cified
later in this section.
Spee dup Prediction. The first model focuses on the p erformance
of the code with different frequency settings. T o have a more ac-
curate predictive model, we focus on modeling normalized p erfor-
mance values, i.e., speedup over a baseline configuration using a
default memory setting, instead of raw p erformance.
W e analyzed a large set of codes, including the twelve test bench-
marks and the 106 micro-kernels used for training. Based on the
analysis insights we sought that, while keeping constant input code
and memory frequency , the speedup increases linearly with the
core frequency (this can bee seen also in the motivational examples
in Section 1.1). For this reason, we used SVR with linear kernel for
spee dup prediction.
Formally , given a set of
n
kernel executions in the training set
T
,
we define a training sample of input-output pairs
( ® w 1 , s 1 ) , · · · , ( ® w n , s n )
,
where
® w i ∈ T
, and each kernel execution of
® w i
is associated to its
measured spee dup
s i
. Therefore , the kernel function in
(2)
is defined
as
K ( ® w i , ® w j ) = ® w i · ® w j
. Additionally , the
C
and
ϵ
parameters [
25
]
are set to 1000 and 0.1.
After the training, coefficient
α i , α ∗
i
and
b
represent the model,
which is later used to predict the spee dup of a new kernel execution
® w comprising of a new input code ®
k and a frequency setting ®
f .
Normalized Energy Model. A second mo del is used for energy
prediction. As w e did for performance, we focus on predicting
per-kernel normalized energy values instead of directly mo deling
energy or power .
W e observed how normalized energy behaves on a large number
of codes. Howev er , in this case the relation is not linear: while keep-
ing constant both input code and memor y frequency , normalized
energy shows a parabolic behavior with increasing core frequency ,
and with a minimum (see Section 1.1). After this point, the increase
on core frequency does not compensate the increase on power ,
leading to an overall decrease of energy per task. Because of that,
we modeled the normalized energy with a non-linear regression ap-
proach; after testing different ones, w e sele cted radial basis function
(RBF) for kernel.
Formally , given a set of
n
kernel executions in the training set
T
,
we define a training sample of input-output pairs
( ® w 1 , e 1 ) , · · · , ( ® w n , e n )
,
where
® w i ∈ T
, and each input
® w i
is associated to its normalize d
energy value
e i
. Therefore , the kernel function in
(2)
is defined as
K ( ® w i , ® w j ) = exp (− γ | | ® w i − ® w j | | 2 )
with parameters
γ =
0
.
1 ,
C =
1000
and ϵ = 0 . 1 .
After the training, the model is represented by the coefficients
α i , α ∗
i
, and
b
, which are later used to predict the normalized energy
of a new kernel execution ® w .
Deriving the Pareto Set. The final calculation of the Pareto-optimal
solution is a straightforward application of multi-objective theor y .
W e briefly recall her e the most important concepts.
The general idea of Pareto dominance implies that one point
dominates another point if it is better in one obje ctive and in the
others is not worse. In our bi-objective pr oblem, we have two goals,
spee dup and normalized energy , which ne ed to be maximize d and
minimized, respectively . Given two kernel executions
® w i
and
® w j
,
corresponding to
( s i , e i )
and
( s j , e j )
,
® w i
dominates
® w j
(denoted by
® w i ≺ ® w j ) if w e have one of the following cases:
• s i ≥ s j and e i < e j , or
• s i > s j and e i ≤ e j .
A kernel execution
® w ∗
is Pareto-optimal if there is no other kernel
execution
® w ′
such that
® w ′ ≺ ® w ∗
. A Pareto-optimal set
P ∗
is the set
of Pareto-optimal kernel execution. A Pareto-optimal fr ont is the
set of points that constitutes the surface of the space dominated by
Pareto-optimal set P ∗ .
Once we have the tw o predictions for each point (i.e., kernel
execution) of the space, we can easily deriv e the Pareto set
P ′
by
using the following algorithm:
Algorithm 1 Simple Pareto set calculation
1: P r e d i c t i on s ← { ( s 1 , e 1 ) , . . . , ( s m , e m ) }
2: P ′ ← ∅ ▷ Output Pareto set
3: Dom i nat e d ← ∅ ▷ Set of dominated points
4: while P r e d i c t i on s , ∅ do
5: c and id at e ← P r ed i c t i ons . pop ()
6: foreach poi nt ∈ P r e d i c t i ons do
7: if c and id at e ≺ poi nt then
8: P r e d i c t i on s ← P r ed i c t i ons \ { c and i d at e }
9: Dom i nat e d ← Dom i nat e d ∪ { c and id at e }
10: if poi nt ≺ c and id at e then
11: Dom i nat e d ← Dom i nat e ∪ { poi nt }
12: else ▷ W e have found a point in the fr ontier
13: P ′ ← P ′ ∪ { c and id at e }
In our case, this simple algorithm is enough to pr ocess all the ker-
nel executions associated with a new input kernel. Howe ver , faster
algorithms with lower asymptotic comple xity are available [18].
4 EXPERIMEN T AL EV ALU A TION
This Section presents and discusses the experimental design and
the results of our study . The test setup is discussed in the next
section (4.1). The evaluation consists of an analysis of energy and
performance characterization (4.2), followed by an error analysis
of our prediction model for spe edup (4.3) and energy efficiency
(4.4). It concludes with the evaluation of the predicted set of Pareto
solutions (4.5).
4.1 Frequency Domain and T est Setting
Our work is based on the ability of setting up memory and core
frequencies, and on getting an accurate measurement of the en-
ergy consumption of a task execution. For the experimental eval-
uation of our approach, we r elied on the capabilities provided by
the N VML [
22
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nvmlDeviceGetSupportedMemo-
ryClocks()
), to set the core and memory frequency (
nvmlDevice-
SetApplicationsClocks()
), and to get the power consumption
of the GP Us ( nvmlDeviceGetPowerUsage() ).
It is important to remark that different NVIDIA GP Us may have
very different tunable configurations. For example, the NVIDIA Ti-
tan X provides four tunable memory frequencies while the N VIDIA
T esla P100 only supports one. In addition, we experimentally no-
ticed that some of the configurations marked as supported by N VML
are not available, because the setting function does not actually
change the frequencies.
Fig. 4 shows those frequency configurations on an NVIDIA Titan
X (4a) and a T esla P100 (4b). The black points represent the actual
available memory-core configurations. On Titan X, while setting
to a core frequency higher than 1202 MHz for
mem-l,h,H
, the core
frequency is actually set to 1202 MHz. The gray points indicate
those configurations indicated as supporte d by N VML but that
actually correspond to the core frequency of 1202 MHz.
As our goal is to statically model how cor e and memory fre-
quency behave with different applications, we disabled any dy-
namic frequency feature ( auto-boost): all experiments have be en
performed at a manually-define d memory setting. The red cross
represents the default fr e quency configuration while not using
dynamic scaling.
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Core frequency (MHz)
0
2000
4000
Memory frequency (MHz)
Default Config.

(a) Titan X
500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400
Core frequency (MHz)
714
715
716
Memory frequency (MHz)
Default Config.

(b) T esla P100
Figure 4: Supported combinations of memor y and core fr e-
quencies.
An important issue of modeling these frequency configurations
is that they are not e venly spread o ver the frequency domain; in-
stead, different core fr e quencies are available for each memory
frequency . In particular , the low est memor y configuration (
mem-L
)
only supports six core frequencies, while
mem-l
has 71, and both
mem-h and mem-H have 50.
Because of the larger space of possible memor y configurations,
our work is more inter esting on the Titan X. The metho dology
introduced by this work is portable, and all test presented in this
work have been performed on b oth N VIDIA GTX Titan X. Howev er ,
we mainly focus on the most interesting Titan X scenario and all
graphics refer to such architecture unless e xplicitly mentione d.
The main target architecture is equipped with the Titan X GP Us
based on Maxwell architecture, supporting Compute capability
5.2, with default frequencies of 3505 MHz (memory) and 1001MHz
(cor e), Op enCL version 1.2 and driv er version 352.63. The OS was
Linux CentOS 14.
The per-kernel energy consumption is computed out of the
power measurements, e .g., the average of sampled p ower values
times the execution time. NVML provides power measurements at
a frequency of 62.5 Hz, which may affect the accuracy of our p ow er
measurements if a benchmark runs for a too short time. There-
fore, the applications have been execute d multiple times, to make
sure that the execution time is long enough to r each a statistical
consistent power value.
4.2 Application Characterization Analysis
W e analyzed the behavior of twelve test benchmarks in terms of
both spe edup and (normalized) energy consumptions.
In Fig. 5, we show a selection of eight significant applications
taken from the twelv e test b enchmarks. For each code, we show
spee dup (
x
-axis) and normalized energy (
y
-axis) with different fre-
quency configurations; the reference baseline for both correspond
to the energy and performance value of the default frequency con-
figuration.
Generally , the applications show two main patterns (see top
and bottom codes in Fig. 5), i.e., memor y- vs compute-dominated
kernels, which correspond to the different sensitivity to core and
memory frequency changes.
Spee dup. In terms of speedup,
k-NN
shows a high variance with
respect of the core frequency: for
mem-H
and
mem-h
, spee dup goes
from 0.62 up to 1.12, which means that it can double the perfor-
mance by only changing the core frequency; for the
mem-l
the
difference is ev en larger , while the limited data for
mem-L
suggest a
similar behavior .
At the other extreme ,
blackscholes
shows very little spee dup
difference while increasing the cor e frequency: all configurations
are clustered to the same speedup for
mem-L
and
l
, while in
mem-h
and
H
the difference is minimal (from 0.89 to 1). Other applications
behave within those two extr eme codes.
Normalized energy . A s previously mentioned, normalized en-
ergy often exhibits a parabolic distribution with a minimum. With
respect to core frequency , it varies within smaller inter vals. For
the highest memory frequencies, it go es up to 1.4 for the first four
codes, and up to 1.2 for the others. Again, the low est configuration
present very different behaviors: on
k-NN
, energy-per-task may b e
from twice the baseline, up to 0.8; in
blacksholes
, on the other
side,
mem-L
shows the same normalized energy for all the core
frequencies.
High vs low memory frequencies. There is a big difference be-
tween high (
mem-H
and
h
) and low (
mem-l
and
L
) frequency config-
urations.
Mem-H
and
h
behave in a very similar way , with regar d of
both spe edup and normalized energy . Both
mem-l
and
mem-L
have
behavior that is much harder to predict.
Mem-l
behaves like the
highest memory frequency at a lower normalized energy for the

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1000
1100
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(d) Conv olution
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1
1.2
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1.8
2
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Mem-L

(e) Median Filter
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1.2
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1.8
2
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(f ) Bit Compression
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0.8
1
1.2
1.4
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1.8
2
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Mem-l
Mem-L

(g) Mersenne T wister(MT)
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0.6
0.8
1
1.2
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1.6
1.8
2
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Mem-H
Mem-h
Mem-l
Mem-L
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
1100
Core(MHz)

(h) Blackscholes
Figure 5: Speedup and normalize d energy for eight selected benchmarks and different frequency configurations. Bottom
(energy )-right (speedup) is b etter .
first four codes; howev er , on the other four codes, the configura-
tions collapse to a line. The
mem-L
is even mor e erratic: in some
codes, all points collapse to a ver y small area, practically a point.
This is a problem for modeling: lowest memory configurations
are much harder to model because their behavior is ver y erratic.
In addition, because the supp orted configurations are not ev enly
distributed, we also have less points to base our analysis.
Pareto optimality . In general, we can see two different patterns
(this also extend to the other test benchmarks). In terms of Pareto
optimality , most of the dominant points are
mem-h
and
H
. Howe ver ,
lower memory settings may as well contribute to the Pareto-set with
configurations; in
k-NN
, for instance,
mem-l
has a configuration that
is as fast the highest ones, but with 20% less energy consumption.
The default configuration is often a very goo d one. Ho wev er ,
there are other dominant solutions that cannot b e selected by using
the default configuration.
4.3 Accuracy of Speedup Predictions
This section evaluates the accuracy of our spee dup predictions. The
modeling approach used for this evaluation is the one describe d in
Section 3.4 based on linear SVR and traine d on micro-benchmarks.
The evaluation is performed on the features extracted from the
twelve test benchmarks discussed before. For each application, we
predicted the spe edup value for all the sampled frequency config-
urations, and then we calculated the error after actually running
that configuration.
T o have an accurate analysis of the accuracy , we grouped the
errors by memory and core frequency . The box-plots in Fig. 6 shows
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10
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30
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RMSE = 6.68%
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10
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RMSE = 7.10%
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RMSE = 11.13%
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MD
K-means
MedianFilter
Flte
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BitCompression
MatrixMultiply
Convolution
k-NN
AES
MersenneTwister
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the minimum, median and maximum error ( % ), and the error distri-
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The error analysis shows that the err or is dep endent on the
memory frequency . The error for the highest memory frequencies
is quite low . It is usually within the 5% and goes over the 10% only
for few outliers. The error her e is also evenly distributed (ov er and
under approximations ar e similar).
On the other hand, the two low est memor y frequencies are very
hard to predict. Results show a mean err or that, in some cases, is
higher than 20% .
Mem-L
is mainly under-approximated, while
mem-l
is mainly over-appr oximated. The error is application-dependent,
the reasons for the larger error ar e mainly two. First, as shown in
previous analysis, some applications hav e a very different sample
distribution, clustered at
mem-L
. Second, be cause of the limited
number of supporte d configurations, we have only six samples for
mem-L
in the training set. Such a small amount of points is not
enough for predictive modeling.
4.4 Accuracy of Normalized Energy Predictions
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RMSE = 12.85%
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K-means
MedianFilter
Flte
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MatrixMultiply
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k-NN
AES
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Figure 7: Prediction error of normalized energy
T o evaluate the accuracy of the SVR model used for normalize d
energy predictions, we used the same methodology discussed in
the previous section. Fig. 7 shows the pr e diction error by memory
frequency and program.
High memory frequency predictions are accurate. How ever , the
relatively small err or for the two highest-frequency configurations
is not evenly distributed as for speedup, and it is also application
dependent. For instance, the
AES
code is always over-appro ximate d.
Also this model lacks of accuracy for the two lowest memory
configurations. In this case,
mem-l
are mainly under-appro ximated,
while for
mem-L
the error is application-dependent. As for perfor-
mance, the error analysis indicates that lo west memor y configu-
rations have higher error because of their very var ying energetic
behavior , and because of the limited numb er of supported configu-
rations for mem-L .
4.5 Accuracy of Pr e dicted Pareto Set
Once the two models have predicted the spee dup and normalized
energy for all frequency configurations, Algorithm 1 is used to
calculate the predicted Pareto set. The accuracy analysis of the
Pareto set is not trivial because our predicted set may include p oints
that, in actual measured performance, are not dominant each other .
In general, a better Pareto approximation is a set of solutions that,
in terms of spee dup and normalized energy , is the closest p ossible
to the real Pareto-optimal one , which in our case has b een evaluated
on a subset of sampled configurations.
Lowest memory configuration. Because of technical limitations
of N VML, the memory configuration
mem-L
only supports six core
configurations, up to only 405 MHz; therefore it co vers only a
limited part of the core-frequency domain. This leads to a lower
accuracy of normalized energy prediction (Fig. 7). In addition, the
Pareto analysis shows that the last point is usually dominant to
the others, and it contributes to the overall set of Par eto p oints in
11 out of 12 codes, as shown in Fig. 8 (the six
mem-L
points are in
green, the last point is blue when dominant).
W e used a simple heuristics to cover up with this issue: we
used the predictive modeling approach on the other three memory
configurations, and added the last of the
mem-L
configuration in
the Pareto set. This simple solution is accurate for all but one code:
AES .
Pareto frontier accuracy . Fig. 8 provides an o verview of the Pareto
set predicted by our method and the real ones, over a collection
of twelve test benchmarks. The gray points represents the mea-
sured spee dup and normalized energy of all the sampled frequency
configurations (
mem-H
,
mem-h
, and
mem-l
), except for
mem-L
, which
are in green because they are not modeled with our predictive ap-
proach. The default configuration is marked with a black cross. The
blue line represent the r eal Pareto front
P ∗
, while the red crosses
represent our pr e dicted Pareto set
P ′
(w e did not conne ct these
points be cause they are not necessarily dominant each other ).
T able 2: Evaluation of predicted Pareto fronts
Benchmark D ( P ∗
, P ′ ) #Points Extreme point distance
| P ′ | | P ∗ | max sp eedup min energy
PerlinNoise 0.0059 12 10 (0.0, 0.0) (0.009, 0.008)
MD 0.0075 9 11 (0.0, 0.0) (0.0, 0.0)
K -means 0.0155 10 12 (0.0, 0.0) (0.007, 0.003)
MedianFilter 0.0162 11 6 (0.001, 0.094) (0.008, 0.006)
Convolution 0.0197 10 14 (0.0, 0.0) (0.042, 0.038)
Blackscholes 0.0208 9 7 (0.002, 0.097) (0.007, 0.016)
MT 0.0272 10 6 (0.003, 0.018) (0.505, 0.114)
Flte 0.0279 9 11 (0.012, 0.016) (0.0, 0.0)
MatrixMultiply 0.0286 9 10 (0.0, 0.0) (0.073, 0.050)
BitCompression 0.0316 11 6 (0.0, 0.0) (0.020, 0.023)
AES 0.0362 11 14 (0.0, 0.0) (0.214, 0.165)
k -NN 0.0660 9 8 (0.036, 0.183) (0.057, 0.004)
Coverage differ ence. T able 2 shows differ ent metrics that eval-
uate the accuracy of our predicted Pareto set. A measure that is
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(l) k -NN
Figure 8: A ccuracy of the predicted Pareto front. Measur ed solutions are shown for all configurations, while the other data
points are based only on the highest frequency configurations. Bottom (energy )-right (spee dup) is better .
(H V) indicator [
31
], which measures the volume of an appr oxima-
tion set with respect of a reference point in terms of the dominated
area. In our case, w e are interested on the coverage difference b e-
tween two sets ( e.g., the real Pareto set
P ∗
and the approximation set
P ′
). Therefore , we use the binar y hyper volume metric [
30
], which
is defined by:
D ( P ∗ , P ′ ) = H V ( P ∗ + P ′ ) − H V ( P ′ ) (2)
Because we maximize on spee dup and minimize on normalized
energy consumption, we select (0.0, 2.0) as the reference point. In
addition, we also indicate the cardinality of both predicted and
optimal Pareto set.
The twelve test benchmarks in Fig. 8 are sorted by cov erage dif-
ference.
Perlin Noise
is the code with the nearest distance to the
optimal Pareto set: the 12 predicted points are very close to the 10
optimal ones, and the overall co verage distance is minimal ( 0
.
0059 ).
Overall, the Pareto predictions for the first six codes are v ery accu-
rate (
≤
0
.
0208 ). Five more codes hav e some visible mispredictions
which, howe ver , translate to a not so large error (
≤
0
.
0362 ).
k-NN
is
the worst code because of lowest accuracy of spee dup prediction,
which shows in Fig. 6.
Accuracy on e xtrema. W e additionally e valuated the accuracy of
our predictive approach on finding the extr eme configurations, e.g.,
the two dominant points that have , respectively , minimum energy
consumption and maximum spee dup. A gain, we removed fr om this
analysis the
mem-L
configurations, whose accuracy was discussed
above. The rational behind this evaluation is that the accuracy on
the Pareto predictions may not reflect the accuracy on these e xtreme
points. As shown in T able 2, the p oint with maximum speedup is
predicted exactly in 7 out of 12 cases, and the error is small. In case
of the point with minimum energy , we have larger mispredictions in
general; in particular two codes,
AES
and
MT
, have a very large error .
This reflect the single-objective accuracy observed b efore , where
the accuracy of spee dup is generally higher than the accuracy of
energy .
The high error on all our analysis with the
MT
code is mainly due
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mem-L
) and a line (
mem-l
), a behavior that is not showed by other
codes.
Predictive modeling in a multi-objective optimization scenario
is challenging because few mispredicted p oints may impact the
whole prediction, as they may dominate other solutions with a
good approximation. Moreover , errors ar e not all equals: over esti-
mation on spee dup, as w ell as underestimation on energy , are much
worse than the opposite, as they may intr o duce wrong dominant
solutions. Despite that, our predictive approach is able to deliver
good approximations in ten out of twelve test benchmarks.
5 CONCLUSION
This paper introduces a modeling approach aimed at predicting the
best memor y and core frequency settings for an OpenCL application
on GP Us. The proposed framework is based on a two-phase machine
learning approach: first, the model is built during a training phase
performed on a set of synthetic b enchmarks; later , the model is use d
for predicting the best frequency settings of a new input kernel.
The modeling approach is designed to address both energy and
performance in a multi-objective context. Different models are build
to predict the normalized energy and the spe edup. Successively ,
these models are used together to derive a set of Pareto-optimal
solutions. Results on an N VIDIA Titan X show that it is possible
to accurately predict a set of good memor y configurations that are
better than the default predefined one.
In the future, w e b elieve that no vel modeling approaches are
required, given the raising interest in multi-objective pr oblems
involving energy efficiency , approximate computing, and space
optimization.
A CKNO WLEDGMEN TS
This research has been partially funded by the DFG project CELER-
I T Y (CO 1544/1-1, project number 360291326) and by the China
Scholarship Council.
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