A software tool to efficiently manage the energy consumption of HPC clusters

TitleA software tool to efficiently manage the energy consumption of HPC clusters
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsCocaña-Fernández, A., Sánchez L., and Ranilla J.
Conference Name2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)
Pagination1-8
Date PublishedAug
Keywordsacademic-cluster, Computational modeling, Computer architecture, Decision making, decision-making mechanism, EECluster software tool, Fuzzy systems, Genetics, high performance computing clusters, HPC cluster energy consumption, learning (artificial intelligence), machine learning approach, OGE-SGE resource management systems, Oviedo University, parallel processing, PBS-TORQUE resource management systems, power aware computing, resource allocation, Scientific Modelling Cluster, software tools
Abstract

Today, High Performance Computing clusters (HPC) are an essential tool owing to they are an excellent platform for solving a wide range of problems through parallel and distributed applications. Nonetheless, HPC clusters consume large amounts of energy, which combined with notably increasing electricity prices are having an important economical impact, forcing owners to reduce operation costs. In this work we propose a software, named EECluster, to reduce the high energy consumption of HPC clusters. EECluster works with both OGE/SGE and PBS/TORQUE resource management systems and automatically tunes its decision-making mechanism based on a machine learning approach. The quality of the obtained results using this software are evaluated by means of experiments made using actual workloads from the Scientific Modelling Cluster at Oviedo University and the academic-cluster used by the Oviedo University for teaching high performance computing subjects.

DOI10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338079