Are you an EPFL student looking for a semester project?
Work with us on data science and visualisation projects, and deploy your project as an app on top of Graph Search.
Publication
Are you an EPFL student looking for a semester project?
Work with us on data science and visualisation projects, and deploy your project as an app on top of Graph Search.
Energy consumption is today one of the major topics that the HPC community tries to tackle. In this paper, the authors present a thought experiment aiming at building a node of a supercomputer based on a GPU (Nvidia GTX280). The paper concentrate on BLAS2 operations that dominate many scientific applications. They show that it is already possible today to build a node that is able to perform one, GFlop while consuming only one Joule. This corresponds to an energy reduction by one to two orders of magnitude. Technical limitations imposed by computer manufacturers hinder the realisation of such ecological resources. In a second part of the paper a new FLOPS-driven governor is presented aiming at boosting the CPU performance for applications that are not main memory access bound, and showing results on an Intel mobile processor.
Paolo Ienne, Mikhail Asiatici, Damian Maiorano
Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch
Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Markus Rexroth