Скачать или смотреть RISC2 Webinar Series | Webinar: Improving energy-efficiency of High-Performance Computing clusters

High-Performance Computing centers consume megawatts of electrical power, which is a limiting factor in building bigger systems on the path to exascale and post-exascale clusters. Such high power consumption leads to several challenges including robust power supply and its network, enormous energy bills, or significant CO2 emissions.

To increase power efficiency, vendors accommodate various heterogeneous hardware that must be fully utilized by users’ applications, to be used efficiently. Such requirements may be hard to fulfill, which open a possibility of limiting the available resources for additional power and energy savings with no or small performance penalty.

The talk presents best practices on how to grant rights to control hardware parameters, how to measure the energy consumption of the hardware, and what can be expected from performing energy-saving activities based on hardware tuning.