Trace-Driven Simulation for Energy Consumption in High Throughput Computing Systems

Forshaw, M.; Thomas, N.; McGough, A.S.

doi:10.1109/ds-rt.2014.12

Trace-Driven Simulation for Energy Consumption in High Throughput Computing Systems

Forshaw, M.; Thomas, N.; McGough, A.S.

Authors

M. Forshaw

N. Thomas

A.S. McGough

Abstract

High Throughput Computing (HTC) is a powerful paradigm allowing vast quantities of independent work to be performed simultaneously. However, until recently little evaluation has been performed on the energy impact of HTC. Many organisations now seek to minimise energy consumption across their IT infrastructure though it is unclear how this will affect the usability of HTC systems. We present here HTC-Sim, a simulation system which allows the evaluation of different energy reduction policies across an HTC system comprising a collection of computational resources dedicated to HTC work and resources provided through cycle scavenging -- a Desktop Grid. We demonstrate that our simulation software scales linearly with increasing HTC workload.

Citation

Forshaw, M., Thomas, N., & McGough, A. (2014). Trace-Driven Simulation for Energy Consumption in High Throughput Computing Systems. In Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications (DS-RT), 2014 IEEE/ACM 18th International Symposium on, 1-3 October 2014, Toulouse, France ; proceedings (27-34). https://doi.org/10.1109/ds-rt.2014.12

Conference Name	2014 IEEE/ACM 18th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications
Conference Location	Toulouse, France
Publication Date	Oct 3, 2014
Deposit Date	Jan 11, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Feb 3, 2015
Pages	27-34
Series ISSN	1550-6525
Book Title	Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications (DS-RT), 2014 IEEE/ACM 18th International Symposium on, 1-3 October 2014, Toulouse, France ; proceedings.
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1109/ds-rt.2014.12

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