Peter Yung Ho Wong, An Investigation in Energy Consumption Analyses and Application-Level Prediction Techniques, MSc Thesis, February 2006
The rapid development in the capability of hardware components of compu- tational systems has led to a significant increase in the energy consumption of these computational systems. This has become a major issue especially if the computational environment is either resource-critical or resource-limited. Hence it is important to understand the energy consumption within these en- vironments. This thesis describes an investigatory approach to power analysis and documents the development of an energy consumption analysis technique at the application level, and the implementation of the Power Trace Simu- lation and Characterisation Tools Suite (PSim). PSim uses a program characterisation technique which is inspired by the Performance Application Characterisation Environment (PACE), a performance modelling and pre- diction framework for parallel and distributed computing.