iMODE interaktif mizaç belirleme motoru

Applications change their mood from time to time. A memory-intensive application does not need to be always memory-intensive from its first instruction to its last. Similarly, it is highly usual that a computation-intensive application generates heavy memory traffic at certain points of its entire run. Meanwhile, processors are designed to have a fixed resource configuration, which is expected to serve all kinds of applications with all kinds of program phases. In this study, we propose a new processor, which tracks down instant mood changes of running applications and applies immediate processor mode changes between in-order and out-of-order modes for either saving power or keeping up with the high-performance demands of applications. In our experiments, we observe that the proposed processor can really track the mood changes of applications, accurately, and achieves 17 percent power savings with only less than 1 percent of performance drop, on the average across all simulated benchmarks.