This is a collection of tools used to experiment with the Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) feature found in Intel processors. The results of the experiments have been published in my Master's thesis and two papers:
Khan, K.N., Hirki, M., Niemi, T., Nurminen, J.K., Ou, Z., "RAPL in Action: Experiences in Using RAPL for Power Measurements", ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS) (accepted)
Hirki, M., Ou, Z., Khan, K.N., Nurminen, J.K., Niemi, T., "Empirical Study of Power Consumption of x86-64 Instruction Decoder", USENIX Workshop on Cool Topics in Sustainable Data Centers (CoolDC '16), Santa Clara, CA, USA, March 2016 pdf
Hirki, M., "Energy and performance profiling of scientific computing", Master's thesis, Aalto University, November 2015 pdf
The code was originally written to run on Scientific Linux 6 but it should also compile and run on newer Linux distributions.
Author: Mikael Hirki mikael.hirki@gmail.com
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