Power characterisation of shared-memory hpc systems

Energy consumption has become one of the greatest challenges in the eld of High Performance Computing (HPC). Besides its impact on the environment, energy is a limiting factor for the HPC. Keeping the power consumption of a system below a threshold is one of the great problems; and power predictio...

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Autores principales: Balladini, Javier, Rucci, Enzo, De Giusti, Armando Eduardo, Naiouf, Marcelo, Suppi, Remo, Rexachs del Rosario, Dolores, Luque Fadón, Emilio
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Publicado: 2012
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/23630
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Sumario:Energy consumption has become one of the greatest challenges in the eld of High Performance Computing (HPC). Besides its impact on the environment, energy is a limiting factor for the HPC. Keeping the power consumption of a system below a threshold is one of the great problems; and power prediction can help to solve it. The power characterisation can be used to know the power behaviour of the system under study, and to be a support to reach the power prediction. Furthermore, it could be used to design power-aware application programs. In this article we propose a methodology to characterise the power consumption of shared-memory HPC systems. Our proposed methodology involves the nding of in uence factors on power consumed by the systems. It is similar to previous works, but we propose an in-deep approach that can help us to get a better power characterisation of the system. We apply our methodology to characterise an Intel server platform and the results show that we can nd a more extended set of in uence factors on power consumption.