Matrix multiplication parallelization on a many-core platform

Abstract

This paper introduces an approach to analyze the power and energy consumption of a many-core system. The investigation has been done by using the Intel SCC system as an experimental platform. The approach is to collect the time and power profiling of an executing application on the Intel SCC system. And then, we find the total energy consumed for the entire execution. We studied the effects of power and energy consumption in many-core systems by varying different hardware configuration parameters such as number of cores, clock frequency and voltage level. Thus, the many-core system can be explored for its scalability, fitness in operational cost and performance. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.