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Task#01
 PROCEDURE TO CREATE PERSONAL LETTER:

PERSONAL LETTER

Hamza Friday, 16 October 2020

Gulistan-e-jauhar
Karachi

Dear irfan,
It's great to hear all your news! I was staying in my grandmother's house for a while, and couldn't respond to you
immediately. Answering your question: I used to love Saturdays. Since we are doing online university, I prefer Monday
now because I only have two classes, which is ITC and ethics.

After class, I can watch TV series without having to worry about my homework, as you've said before. In the evening, my
mom likes to cook a cake and make biscuits, which is also an activity we use to spend more time together.

At night, I play games and sometimes watch a movie. I miss hanging out with you, unfortunately, the cases of Covid-19
has been rising every day making it impossible to go out.
Anyway, how is your quarantine going? Take care of yourself and don't forget to e-mail me back.
Lots of love,

You’re Friend,
hammad

Task: 2
 Create a research paper:

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Improving Mobile Gaming Performance through
Cooperative CPU-GPU Thermal Management
Muhammad Shafique§
National University of Singapore
Author: tulika@comp.nus.edu.sg

CortexA15 CPU alongside a high-performance ARM

1. ABSTRACT: Mali T604 GPU. The presence of such high
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performance components in a portable device
State-of-the-art thermal management techniques
independently throttle the frequencies of high- enables the execution of sophisticated applications
performance multi-core CPU and powerful graphics such as video editing, immersive 3D games, etc.
In response to this challenge, DVFS has been Page: 2
effectively used to fulfill the required thermal
constraints [24]. Operating systems used in mobile
devices offer different DVFS governors for CPU, GPU,
etc. that respond to various criteria (e.g., CPU
utilization) [1]. However, these governors do not
target thermal management. Instead, they rely on Figure 2: Effect of Thermal Throttling on frequency and FPS of
independent thermal management units (TMUs) for Linux governor

CPU and GPU that are triggered only after the
temperature constraint is violated. These TMUs do
not consider the performance coupling between CPU
and4.GPU, thereby reducing
DYNAMIC THERMAL application performance.
In [6, 7], DVFS-based power management approach
forMANAGEMENT
such architectures haveALGORITHM
been proposed in order to
provide users with flexible power-performance trade-
The proposed control-theory based DTM
offs, however they do not focus on thermal
algorithm is shown in Figure 5. It strives to keep
management. Similarly, several works [8, 11, 9]
the MPSoC temperature at or close to a pre-
consider coordinated CPU-GPU power management
defined threshold by estimating and allocating the
but do not consider thermal issues.
available thermal headroom individually to both
CPU and GPU based on their utilization values.
Due to the absence of individual sensors, the
algorithm starts by estimating the CPU and GPU
temperatures, T c est (t) and T g est(t), at time
step (t) from the current temperature measured
by the on-chip sensor T s mesa(t) and the
reference CPU and GPU temperature T c ref (t − 1)
and T g ref (t − 1), set in the previous iteration. To
this end, we first calculate the estimated on-chip
5. CONCLUSION
In this paper, we performed a detailed
characterization of the thermal behavior of the
CPU and GPU in a commercial mobile MPSoC and
showed that both CPU and GPU contribute
towards the rise in chip temperature and hence
must be managed cooperatively to achieve high
Figure 1 is showing CPU & GPU throttling
performance. with robust thermal management.
We also derived models to estimate the
6. REFRENCES:
1. Android Governors. http://goo.gl/8j1Eqo
2. Arndale board 5250. http://goo.gl/1ZCSNX
3. [3] Epic Citadel, Unreal Engine.
http://goo.gl/xdsQMr.
4. [5] A. Bartolini et al. Thermal and Energy
Management of High-Performance
Multicores: Distributed and
5. [6] A. Pathania et al. Integrated CPU-GPU
power management for 3D mobile games.

Improving Mobile
Gaming Performance
through
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 Cooperative CPU-
GPU Thermal
Management
 Improving Mobile
Gaming Performance
through
Cooperative CPU-
GPU Thermal
Managemen

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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING