HDEEM: High Definition Energy Efficiency Monitoring

The energy consumption and its associated costs are more and more becoming a limiting factor in High Performance Computing (HPC). Energy-efficient High Performance Computing is the focus of the research cooperation between ZIH and the French company Bull. In the course of this research project, the effectiveness of mechanisms for saving energy in modern hardware will be evaluated and applied to production systems. As a first step, using a software-based measurement database will enable energy accounting on a per-job basis. Later on in the project, the second phase of the procurement of the new HPC and storage system will be equipped with a novel power measurement infrastructure designed for scalability and high accuracy. Using this infrastructure, researchers will be able to conduct energy-efficiency analyses and optimizations of parallel HPC user codes. 

Access to Measurement Data

HPC Compendium
Official Documentation

ZIH Contact

Daniel Hackenberg

Duration

01/2013 - 12/2019

Funding

Bull

Publications

• Thomas Ilsche, Robert Schöne, Joseph Schuchart, Daniel Hackenberg, Marc Simon, Yiannis Georgiou and Wolfgang E. Nagel. "Power Measurement Techniques for Energy-Efficient Computing: Reconciling Scalability, Resolution, and Accuracy" In: Second Workshop on Energy-Aware High Performance Computing (EnA-HPC). 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s00450-018-0392-9
• Joseph Schuchart, Daniel Hackenberg, Robert Schöne, Thomas Ilsche, Ramkumar Nagappan, Michael K. Patterson. “The Shift from Processor Power Consumption to Performance Variations: Fundamental Implications at Scale.” In: First Workshop on Energy-Aware High Performance Computing (EnA-HPC). 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s00450-016-0327-2
• Daniel Hackenberg, Robert Schöne, Thomas Ilsche, Daniel Molka, Joseph Schuchart, and Robin Geyer: An Energy Efficiency Feature Survey of the Intel Haswell Processor. In: 2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshop (IPDPSW). DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2015.70
• Thomas Ilsche, Daniel Hackenberg, Stefan Graul, Joseph Schuchart, and Robert Schöne. “Power Measurements for Compute Nodes: Improving Sampling Rates, Granularity, and Accuracy.” In: Sixth International Green Computing Conference and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC). 2015. DOI: 10.1109/IGCC.2015.7393710
• Daniel Hackenberg, Thomas Ilsche, Joseph Schuchart, Robert Schöne, Wolfgang E. Nagel, Marc Simon, and Yiannis Georgiou. HDEEM: High Definition Energy Efficiency Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Energy Efficient Supercomputing (E2SC). 2014. DOI: 10.1109/E2SC.2014.13