SICSA PhD Conference 2011—practical resources (slides)

Microprocessor architecture tuning (handout)

Homepage of the m5 simulator: http://www.m5sim.org/Main_Page
Homepage of the mcpat simulator: http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/mcpat/
Homepage of ARCHER: http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/Archer:Index
Wikipedia page for Alpha21364 chips (which our simulation is based around): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_21364
Source code for the matrix tests: matrix/
Perl script for taking the output of m5 and creating an input file for mcpat: m5-mcpat.pl. Usage: perl m5-mcpat.pl [m5out/stats.txt] [m5out/config.ini] [mcpat-template.xml] > output.xml
XML template file for mcpat: mcpat-template.xml
Perl script to run mcpat and convert output in to energy consumption: mcpat-exec.pl. Run in the mcpat directory as: perl mcpat-exec.pl [output.xml]
Example of getting started and use: using VMWare player, install in Linux

Nathan L. Binkert and Ronald G. Dreslinski and Lisa R. Hsu and Kevin T. Lim and Ali G. Saidi and Steven K. Reinhardt. The M5 Simulator: Modeling Networked Systems. IEEE Micro. Volume 26, 2006.
Sheng Li, Jung Ho Ahn, Jay B. Brockman, Norman P. Jouppi "McPAT 1.0: An Integrated Power, Area, and Timing Modeling Framework for Multicore Architectures", [pdf]

Instructions for attaching phones to the measurement hardware: mobilepower.jpg
To start the visualiser: open a terminal, cd ~/powerlab; ./run.sh when the window opens you need to maximise it to get the graph updating properly.

Introduction to the measurement platform and energy consumption results for G1 phones using wireless networks: Andrew Rice and Simon Hay. Decomposing power measurements for mobile devices. In Eighth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), Mar 2010 [pdf]
Extended results for Nexus One phones: Andrew Rice and Simon Hay. Measuring mobile phone energy consumption for 802.11 wireless networking. In Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Aug 2010 [pdf]

Attaching the current clamp and using the oscilloscope: clampandscope.jpg
Wikipedia: switched mode power supply http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-mode_power_supply
Example of a resistive load (2 ring electric hob): clamp-oven.png
Example of a switched mode power supply (laptop charging): clamp-thinkpad.png
Example of an electric motor (washing machine spin cycle): clamp-washingmachine.png
Datasheet for split-core AC clamp sensor 529496.pdf

Measurement of the energy cost of printing a page: Simon Hay and Andrew Rice. The case for apportionment. In Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys 2009, in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2009) [pdf].
Inferring which devices are switched on by their induced pattern on the ring main: Patel, S.N., Robertson, T., Kientz, J.A., Reynolds, M.S., Abowd, G.D. At the Flick of a Switch: Detecting and Classifying Unique Electrical Events on the Residential Power Line. In the Proceedings of Ubicomp 2007. pp. 271-288. [pdf].

Electricity consumption information for the Computer Lab in Cambridge: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/meters. The data show the number of units (kWh) consumed per hour with timestamps recorded as milliseconds since 1 Jan 1970 (in the manner of unix timestamps).
Online floor plan of the building: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/openroommap/static.
Inventory of the building: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/openroommap/inventory.
Partial map of floor area covered by electricity meters: First floor, Second floor (Ground floor not mapped)
Vectors for floor plan: Ground floor, First floor, Second floor (one way to plot these is just to do plot "complab-first.txt" w l in Gnuplot
Estimated occupancy log: occupancy.txt.gz
Outdoor temperature log: temperature.txt
Example 'high information density' plot of energy use: wgb-heatmap-2007.png
Perl script for converting JSON energy information to CSV: json-csv.pl. Usage: cat S-m257-2011-05.json | perl json-csv.pl > S-m257-2011-05.csv
Total electricity consumption for the Computer Lab: gates-elec.txt

Description of the algorithm for estimating building occupancy from swipe cards logs: Simon Hay and Andrew Rice. The case for apportionment. In Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys 2009, in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2009) [pdf].
Use of building inventory information for estimating energy consumption: Andrew Rice, Simon Hay and Dan Ryder-Cook. A Limited-Data Model Of Building Energy Consumption. In 2nd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys 2010, in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2010) [pdf].
Collecting building plans and inventory data: Andrew C. Rice and Oliver J. Woodman. Crowd-sourcing world models with OpenRoomMap. In Eighth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) Work-in-progress, Mar 2010 [pdf].

Philip Tuddenham, Tabletop interfaces for remote collaboration, UCAM-CL-TR-734 [pdf]
Abigail J. Sellen, Remote conversations: the effects of mediating talk with technology, Human-Computer Interaction 10(4) 1995 [pdf]