Title
Application-Agnostic Framework for Improving the Energy Efficiency of Multiple HPC Subsystems
Abstract
The subsystems that compose a HPC platform (e.g. CPU, memory, storage and network) are often designed and configured to deliver exceptional performance to a wide range of workloads. As a result, a large part of the power that these subsystems consume is dissipated as heat even when executing workloads that do not require maximum performance. Attempts to tackle this problem include technologies whereby operating systems and applications can reconfigure subsystems dynamically, such as by using DVFS for CPUs, LPI for network components, and variable disk spinning for HDDs. Most previous work has explored these technologies individually to optimise workload execution and reduce energy consumption. We propose a framework that performs on-line analysis of an HPC system in order to identify application execution patterns without a priori information of their workload. The framework takes advantage of reoccurring patterns to reconfigure multiple subsystems dynamically and reduce overall energy consumption. Performance evaluation was carried out on Grid'5000 considering both traditional HPC benchmarks and real-life applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/PDP.2015.18
PDP
Keywords
Field
DocType
phase detection
Spinning,Computer science,Efficient energy use,Workload,A priori and a posteriori,Parallel computing,Phase detector,Energy consumption,Distributed computing,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1066-6192
0
0.34
References 
Authors
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
ghislain landry tsafack chetsa1464.51
Laurent Lefèvre239550.87
Jean-Marc Pierson362359.06
Patricia Stolf412517.37
Georges Da Costa534532.75