EFFICIENT POWER MANAGEMENT IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTER CLUSTERS

Carlos de Alfonso Laguna, Miguel Caballer, Vicente Hernández

2010

Abstract

Nowadays the computer cluster infrastructures are very common not only in research centers, but also in the business environment. These computer infrastructures were traditionally used to perform complex mathematic calculations using parallel programs, but currently it is extended the use of them as virtualization platforms and shared by means of grid middlewares. Anyway, this kind of infrastructures usually has many idle periods due to different issues such as the lack of intensive calculations, holydays, weekends, etc. Even having reduced the power consumption of different components, and accomplishing energy saving initiatives, it would be better to not to waste energy when it is not needed. This paper shows that green computing techniques can be applied in these infrastructures, powering-off the nodes which are not being used and switching them on when needed, to enable reducing power consumption considerably. These techniques must be applied trying to cause a minimum impact to the user who is using the infrastructure, and without interference in running applications.

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in Harvard Style

de Alfonso Laguna C., Caballer M. and Hernández V. (2010). EFFICIENT POWER MANAGEMENT IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTER CLUSTERS . In Proceedings of the Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: ICGREEN, (INNOV 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-15-7, pages 39-44. DOI: 10.5220/0003036500390044


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icgreen10,
author={Carlos de Alfonso Laguna and Miguel Caballer and Vicente Hernández},
title={EFFICIENT POWER MANAGEMENT IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTER CLUSTERS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: ICGREEN, (INNOV 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={39-44},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003036500390044},
isbn={978-989-8425-15-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: ICGREEN, (INNOV 2010)
TI - EFFICIENT POWER MANAGEMENT IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTER CLUSTERS
SN - 978-989-8425-15-7
AU - de Alfonso Laguna C.
AU - Caballer M.
AU - Hernández V.
PY - 2010
SP - 39
EP - 44
DO - 10.5220/0003036500390044