HPC Power/Thermal/Performance Research with OpenPOWER
Session ChairWu Feng
Event Type
Emerging Technologies
TimeWednesday, November 16th10am - 6pm
Location155-B
DescriptionReducing power/energy consumption without significantly impacting performance is a growing challenge in the HPC space. New tools and collaborative industry and academic support are required in order to further research and enable innovative solutions.
As a response to this challenge, the entire OpenPOWER firmware and software stack, including a new power/performance profiling tool, has been released as open source. System administrators and researchers can now collect over 144 power/thermal/performance sensors, add in their own sensor collection, understand exactly how the control algorithms work, investigate issues with detailed knowledge of the hardware hooks and firmware design, change the actual code at all levels of the software/firmware stack, and can provide solutions back to the HPC community at large in order to move the state of the art forward.
As a response to this challenge, the entire OpenPOWER firmware and software stack, including a new power/performance profiling tool, has been released as open source. System administrators and researchers can now collect over 144 power/thermal/performance sensors, add in their own sensor collection, understand exactly how the control algorithms work, investigate issues with detailed knowledge of the hardware hooks and firmware design, change the actual code at all levels of the software/firmware stack, and can provide solutions back to the HPC community at large in order to move the state of the art forward.
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