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Energy Efficiency Features of the Intel Skylake-SP Processor and Their Impact on Performance
Robert Schöne, Thomas Ilsche, Mario Bielert, Andreas Gocht, Daniel Hackenberg
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The overwhelming majority of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems and server infrastructure uses Intel x86 processors. This makes an architectural analysis of these processors relevant for a wide audience of administrators and performance engineers. In this paper, we describe the effects of hardware controlled energy efficiency features for the Intel Skylake-SP processor. Due to the prolonged micro-architecture cycles, which extend the previous Tick-Tock scheme by Intel, our findings will also be relevant for succeeding architectures. The findings of this paper include the following: C-state latencies increased significantly over the Haswell-EP processor generation. The mechanism that controls the uncore frequency has a latency of approximately 10 ms and it is not possible to truly fix the uncore frequency to a specific level. The out-of-order throttling for workloads using 512 bit wide vectors also occurs at low processor frequencies. Data has a significant impact on processor power consumption which causes a large error in energy models relying only on instructions.
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