TPC–Energy TPC-Energy September 2008

TPC–Energy HP Dell Sun IBM Unisys AMD Microsoft Intel Oracle (No Vote) FSC (No Vote) TPC-Energy Membership

TPC–Energy Meetings Had 10 Conference Calls since Germany GC Meeting Had 3 day Face-to-Face Meeting in Houston 8 Active companies out of 10 Members

TPC–Energy Previous TPC-Energy Schedule April 14 face to face: 1.Target all sections to be 50% ready 2.Over 50% of Spec wording is formulated (Version 0.2.0) 3.Still difficult subject matter to be worked. June 2 face to face: 1.Target all sections to be 85% ready 2.Assess the timeline for going to public review 3.Many details to fill in during the next several months August – Additional face-to-face meeting: 1.Denver or Houston August 5 – 9 (Tues – Friday) 2.Tues – Thurs Spec Work 3.If Houston - Friday 8/9 – Lab Testing of code on all TPC Benchmarks September 8 face to face: Go to Public review November 17 face to face: Go to mail ballot – February 2009 Mail Ballot if slip from November.

TPC–Energy Current TPC-Energy Schedule September face to face: 1.Target all sections to be 80% ready 2.Over 60% of Spec wording is formulated (Version 0.4.2) 3.Almost all difficult subject matter has been worked. November face to face: 1.Target all specifications sections to be 99% ready 2.Assess the timeline for going to public review 3.Many details to fill in during the next several months 4.All necessary code functional February 2009 face to face: Go to Public review April 2009 face to face: Go to mail ballot –

TPC–Energy Status as of September 11, 2008 SPEC – TPC Agreement in place to use the SPEC Power and Temperature Daemon (PTD) Still working on SPEC – TPC NDA Energy Specification –Reorganized Clause Sections –Reformatted most of wording –List of unresolved issues has no major issues remaining Coding in beginning stages

TPC–Energy Scheduled Meetings ConCalls – Tuesdays 1:00PM PDT –Sept 22 – 1:00 PM PDT –Sept 29 – 1:00 PM PDT –Oct 6 – 1:00 PM PDT –Oct 13 – 1:00 PM PDT –Oct 20 – 1:00 PM PDT –Oct 27 – 1:00 PM PDT –Nov 3 – 1:00 PM PDT –Nov 10 – 1:00 PM PDT November 2008 – General Council –Nov 17 – Dana Point 9:00AM – 5:00PM –Nov 18 – Dana Point 9:00AM – 5:00PM (May need to end earlier for TAB) –Nov 19 – Dana Point 9:00AM – 3:00PM (If PR does not meet will go to 5:00PM)

TPC–Energy Software Design Delivering 4 binaries: EMF – Energy Measurement Facilitator Does not drive the benchmark. Be independent of benchmark. How to pick-up benchmark events. Time sync with benchmark driver – Mark this time from the benchmark driver. Register an event. Mark this time with “string” Single instance Create separate thread for display? PTD Manager Need to define command set to PTD Connect to PTD – one per PTD Read current measurement (poll) Call back… for display (send measurements at a defined period) Local logging –store in binary format for small file size. Time Sync PTD SPEC version will likely require some modifications Utilities Report Generator Standardize output Use in FDR Uploaded zip file

TPC–Energy Benchmark Status Report The TPC Energy sub-committee has developed methodology to add energy metrics to all the existing TPC Benchmarks. This will utilize the existing TPC benchmarks as the workload and during the running of the benchmarks, measure the energy being consumed by the System Under Test. The new metrics will be of the form: Watts/Performance. The TPC-Energy Specification wording is approximately 60% complete. There remains significant work in developing procedures and measurement methodologies which require testing prior to finalization of the specification. The TPC-Energy subcommittee is developing code which will interface to the power analyzers and temperature probes.. This code will collect the energy and temperature data of the components of the System Under Test and create a uniform log for reporting the results. The TPC will use the SPEC consortium Power and Temperature Daemon code as part of this benchmark. These programs will be available to Test Sponsors who will run the TPC-Energy option of the TPC Benchmarks.