A library that meets application performance goals by manipulating power caps.

For details, please see the following and reference as appropriate:

• Connor Imes, Huazhe Zhang, Kevin Zhao, Henry Hoffmann. "CoPPer: Soft Real-time Application Performance Using Hardware Power Capping". In: IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC). 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAC.2019.00015

If looking to reproduce published results, please see the integration project copper-eval.

This project uses CMake.

To build, run:

mkdir _build
cd _build
cmake ..
make

To install, run with proper privileges:

make install

On Linux, installation typically places libraries in /usr/local/lib and header files in /usr/local/include.

Install must be run before uninstalling in order to have a manifest. To uninstall, run with proper privileges:

make uninstall

See code in the example directory.

Find this and related project sources at the powercap organization on GitHub.
This project originates at: https://github.com/powercap/copper

Bug reports and pull requests for bug fixes and enhancements are welcome.