Euro-Par 2026Best Paper Award nominee
Understanding Power Limiting Mechanisms in Modern Processors: A Deep Dive Into Intel RAPL and Turbo Boost Dynamics
Romial Menra, Guillaume Rosinosky, Remous-Aris Koutsiamanis, Sébastien Bolle, Jean-Marc Menaud
Euro-Par 2026: Parallel Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 135-149
Takeaway Only the long-term window and the two power limits drive turbo behaviour; a closed-form model predicts turbo duration on four Intel Xeon generations; capping below half of TDP wastes energy instead of saving it.