Title
Your cluster is not power homogeneous: Take care when designing green schedulers!
Abstract
Future supercomputers will consume enormous amounts of energy. These very large scale systems will gather many homogeneous clusters. In this paper, we analyze the power consumption of the nodes from different homogeneous clusters during different workloads. We classically observe that these nodes exhibit the same level of performance. But we also show that different nodes from a homogeneous cluster may exhibit heterogeneous idle power energy consumption even if they are made of identical hardware. Hence, we propose an experimental methodology to understand such differences. We show that CPUs are responsible for such heterogeneity which can reach 20% in terms of energy consumption. So energy aware (Green) schedulers must take care of such hidden heterogeneity in order to propose efficient mapping of tasks. To consume less energy, we propose an energy-aware scheduling approach taking into account the heterogeneous idle power consumption of homogeneous nodes. It shows that we are able to save energy up to 17% while exploiting the high power heterogeneity that may exist in some homogeneous clusters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/IGCC.2013.6604506
IGCC
Keywords
Field
DocType
scheduling,hardware,dispersion,benchmark testing,cpu,parallel processing
Cluster (physics),Computer science,Homogeneous,Idle,Scheduling (computing),Parallel computing,Parallel processing,Energy consumption,Benchmark (computing),Distributed computing,Power consumption
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.57
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammed el Mehdi Diouri1595.08
Olivier Glück2728.06
Laurent Lefèvre339550.87
Jean-Christophe Mignot4182.22