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Power-aware resource allocation in high-end systems via online simulation

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Power-aware resource allocation in high-end systems via online simulation
Traditionally, scheduling in high-end parallel systems focuses on how to minimize the average job waiting time and on how to maximize the overall system utilization. Despite the development of scheduling strategies that aim at maximizing system utilization, parallel supercomputing traces that span long time periods indicate that such systems are mostly underutilized. Much of the time there is simply not enough load to keep the system fully utilized, although time periods do exist where system utilization levels peak at nearly 95%. In this paper, we propose a new family of scheduling policies that aims at minimizing power consumption and cooling costs by selectively choosing to power down (or put in “sleep” mode) parts of the system during periods of low load. Our goal is the development of a scheduling mechanism that adaptively adjusts the number of processors to the offered load while meeting predefined service-level agreements (SLAs). This scheduling mechanism uses online simul...
Barry Lawson, Evgenia Smirni
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Updated 27 Jun 2010
Type Conference
Year 2005
Where ICS
Authors Barry Lawson, Evgenia Smirni
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