Power and Performance Management of GPUs Based Cluster

Yaser Jararweh and Salim Hariri
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Yaser Jararweh: Department of Computer Science, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
Salim Hariri: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC), 2012, vol. 2, issue 4, 16-31

Abstract: Power consumption in GPUs based cluster became the major obstacle in the adoption of high productivity GPU accelerators in the high performance computing industry. The power consumed by GPU chips represent about 75% of the total GPU based cluster power consumption. This is due to the fact that the GPU cards are often configured at peak performance, and consequently, they will be active all the time. In this paper, the authors present a holistic power and performance management framework that reduces power consumption of the GPU based cluster and maintains the system performance within an acceptable predefined threshold. The framework dynamically scales the GPU cluster to adapt to the variation of incoming workload’s requirements and increase the idleness of the of GPU devices, allowing them to transition to low-power state. The proposed power and performance management framework in GPU cluster demonstrated 46.3% power savings for GPU workload while maintaining the cluster performance. The overhead of the proposed framework is insignificant on the normal application\system operations and services.

Date: 2012
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