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Multicore CPU energy requirement and load balancing

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Mar 15, 20264620 views
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I am interested in load balancing for multicore CPU systems. If you use 1 CPU with multiple cores, is it more energy efficient to balance the load on several cores, or try to fill up single cores and leave others idle. The basic assumption is that the amount of work being done in both cases is exac…

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IMO this question is simply unanswerable in the general case. On my desk I have one of these new-fangled Core i7-980x 6-core TurboBoost enabled CPUs. If you load up a single core on this machine, it will boost the clock speed of that core, thereby i…

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