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

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

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, October). Trace-Driven Simulation for Energy Consumption in High Throughput Computing Systems. Presented at 2014 IEEE/ACM 18th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, Toulouse, France

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2014 IEEE/ACM 18th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications
• 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
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1153631