Precision-Aware application execution for Energy-optimization in HPC node system

Radim Vavřík; Antoni Portero; Štěpán Kuchař; Martin Golasowski; Simone Libutti; Giuseppe Massari; William Fornaciari; Vít Vondrák

arXiv · 1501.04557

Precision-Aware application execution for Energy-optimization in HPC node system

Radim Vavřík·Antoni Portero·Štěpán Kuchař·Martin Golasowski·Simone Libutti·Giuseppe Massari·William Fornaciari·Vít Vondrák

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Abstract

Power consumption is a critical consideration in high performance computing systems and it is becoming the limiting factor to build and operate Petascale and Exascale systems. When studying the power consumption of existing systems running HPC workloads, we find that power, energy and performance are closely related which leads to the possibility to optimize energy consumption without sacrificing (much or at all) the performance. In this paper, we propose a HPC system running with a GNU/Linux OS and a Real Time Resource Manager (RTRM) that is aware and monitors the healthy of the platform. On the system, an application for disaster management runs. The application can run with different QoS depending on the situation. We defined two main situations. Normal execution, when there is no risk of a disaster, even though we still have to run the system to look ahead in the near future if the situation changes suddenly. In the second scenario, the possibilities for a disaster are very high. Then the allocation of more resources for improving the precision and the human decision has to be taken into account. The paper shows that at design time, it is possible to describe different optimal points that are going to be used at runtime by the RTOS with the application. This environment helps to the system that must run 24/7 in saving energy with the trade-off of losing precision. The paper shows a model execution which can improve the precision of results by 65% in average by increasing the number of iterations from 1e3 to 1e4. This also produces one order of magnitude longer execution time which leads to the need to use a multi-node solution. The optimal trade-off between precision vs. execution time is computed by the RTOS with the time overhead less than 10% against a native execution.

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Radim Vavřík, Antoni Portero, Štěpán Kuchař, Martin Golasowski, Simone Libutti, Giuseppe Massari, William Fornaciari, Vít Vondrák. 2015-01-19. Precision-Aware application execution for Energy-optimization in HPC node system. https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04557

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