Analysis of Power-Saving Techniques over a Large Multi-use Cluster
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- McGough, A. Stephen; Gerrard, Clive; Noble, Jonathan; Robinson, Paul; Wheater, Stuart
- Source
- 2011 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), 2011 IEEE Ninth International Conference on. :364-371 Dec, 2011
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Computers
Computational modeling
Educational institutions
Computer architecture
Energy consumption
Monitoring
Resumes
cluster
energy
policy
simulation
- Language
Reduction of power consumption for any computer system is now an important issue, although this should be done in a manner that is not detrimental to the user base. We present a number of policies that can be applied to multi-use clusters where computers are shared between interactive users and high-throughput computing. We evaluate policies by trace-driven simulations in order to determine the effects on power consumed and impact on high-throughput users. We demonstrate that these policies could save ~60% more energy for the high-throughput jobs over our current cluster policies.