ViRUS: Virtual Function Replacement Under Stress
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Lucas Wanner and Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract—In this paper we introduce ViRUS: Virtual function Replacement Under Stress. ViRUS allows the runtime system to switch between blocks of code that perform equivalent functionality at different Quality-of- Service levels when the system is under stress — be it in the form of scarce energy resources, temperature emergencies, or various sources of environmental and process variability — with the ultimate goal of energy efficiency. We demonstrate ViRUS with a framework for transparent function replacement in shared libraries and a polymorphic version of the standard C math library in Linux. Case studies show how ViRUS can tradeoff upwards of 4% degradation in application quality for a band of upwards of 50% savings in energy consumption.
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author = {Lucas Wanner and Mani Srivastava},
title = {ViRUS: Virtual Function Replacement Under Stress},
booktitle = {6th Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower 14)},
year = {2014},
address = {Broomfield, CO},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotpower14/workshop-program/presentation/wanner},
publisher = {{USENIX} Association},
month = oct,
}
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