Title
Towards fine-grained dynamic tuning of HPC applications on modern multi-core architectures
Abstract
There is a consensus that exascale systems should operate within a power envelope of 20MW. Consequently, energy conservation is still considered as the most crucial constraint if such systems are to be realized. So far, most research on this topic focused on strategies such as power capping and dynamic power management. Although these approaches can reduce power consumption, we believe that they might not be sufficient to reach the exascale energy-efficiency goals. Hence, we aim to adopt techniques from embedded systems, where energy-efficiency has always been the fundamental objective. A successful energy-saving technique used in embedded systems is to integrate fine-grained autotuning with dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. In this paper, we apply a similar technique to a real-world HPC application. Our experimental results on a HPC cluster indicate that such an approach saves up to 20% of energy compared to the baseline configuration, with negligible performance loss.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3126908.3126945
SC
Keywords
Field
DocType
Energy-efficiency,high performance computing,dynamic voltage and frequency scaling,autotuning,dynamic tuning
Energy conservation,Supercomputer,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Parallel computing,Voltage,Baseline (configuration management),Frequency scaling,Multi-core processor,Distributed computing,Power consumption
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2167-4329
978-1-4503-5114-0
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
34
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammed Sourouri1313.76
Espen Birger Raknes230.37
Nico Reissmann331.05
Johannes Langguth48512.71
Daniel Hackenberg540028.07
Robert Schöne623519.27
P. G. Kjeldsberg725313.54