PMP 2011 - The First International Workshop on Power Measurement and Profiling (PMP 2011)

Power dissipation has already become one of the foremost considerations for computer system design. Except for low power hardware design, software-based power management techniques are equally critical for solving the power problem of computer systems. As the basic of power management related research, power measurement and profiling aim to measure or estimate the power dissipation of different levels. These techniques are globally used in many areas. For example, hardware performance counter based power profiling can be used to supply on-line power information for power-aware scheduling algorithms. Furthermore, the estimated block-level or instruction-level power information can be used to analyze software power behaviors. Moreover, direct power measurement with hardware devices is also critical for validating the effectiveness of power-aware strategies. Recent work is more concentrated on estimating the power of different levels with software power models. In addition, designing power-aware strategies based on the estimated on-line power information requires to do more deeply research. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different domains that have faced power measurement and profiling issues to share their successes as well as the challenges they face.

This workshop will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and practitioners in several areas such as operating systems, computer architecture, distributed systems, mobile computing, high performance computing, and social science.
Topics of interest

The workshop seeks papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress in the area of power measurement and profiling in computer systems. Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Power modeling for general purpose computer systems
Power modeling for mobile devices
Power modeling for virtualization systems
Power/performance analysis
Power measurement tools and methods
On-line power information based scheduling
Software power behavior analysis
Power profiling software
Power-aware strategies
On-chip thermal measurement
System power decomposition