Energy efficiency and resilience are two crucial challenges for HPC systems to reach exascale. While energy efficiency and resilience issues have been extensively studied individually, little has been done to understand the interplay between energy efficiency and resilience for HPC systems. Decreasing the supply voltage associated with a given operating frequency for processors and other CMOS-based components can significantly reduce power consumption. However, this often raises system failure rates and consequently increases application execution time. In this work, we present an energy saving undervolting approach that leverages the mainstream resilience techniques to tolerate the increased failures caused by undervolting.
Revised: August 19, 2015 |
Published: May 29, 2015
Citation
Tan L., S. Song, P. Wu, Z. Chen, R. Ge, and D.J. Kerbyson. 2015.Investigating the Interplay between Energy Efficiency and Resilience in High Performance Computing. In IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2015), May 25-29, 2015, Hyderabad, India, 786-796. Los Alamitos:IEEE Computer Society.PNNL-SA-109093.doi:10.1109/IPDPS.2015.108