Title :
Quantifying the impact of GPUs on performance and energy efficiency in HPC clusters
Author :
Enos, Jeremy ; Steffen, Craig ; Fullop, Joshi ; Showerman, Michael ; Shi, Guochun ; Esler, Kenneth ; Kindratenko, Volodymyr ; Stone, John E. ; Phillips, James C.
Author_Institution :
Center for Supercomput. Applic., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
We present an inexpensive hardware system for monitoring power usage of individual CPU hosts and externally attached GPUs in HPC clusters and the software stack for integrating the power usage data streamed in real-time by the power monitoring hardware with the cluster management software tools. We introduce a measure for quantifying the overall improvement in performance-per-watt for applications that have been ported to work on the GPUs. We use the developed hardware/software infrastructure to demonstrate the overall improvement in performance-per-watt for several HPC applications implemented to work on GPUs.
Keywords :
computer graphic equipment; coprocessors; power consumption; workstation clusters; CPU hosts; GPU; HPC clusters; cluster management software tools; hardware-software infrastructure; performance-per-watt; power monitoring hardware; power usage data; power usage monitoring; software stack; Benchmark testing; Graphics processing unit; Monitoring; Power demand; Power measurement; Sensors; GPU; cluster; power efficiency; power monitoring;
Conference_Titel :
Green Computing Conference, 2010 International
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7612-1
DOI :
10.1109/GREENCOMP.2010.5598297
