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Title: Strategies for Energy-Efficient Resource Management of Hybrid Programming Models

Journal Article · · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/tpds.2012.95· OSTI ID:1734607
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  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  3. Queen's Univ. Belfast, Ireland (United Kingdom); Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas FORTH, Crete (Greece)
  4. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)

Many scientific applications are programmed using hybrid programming models that use both message passing and shared memory, due to the increasing prevalence of large-scale systems with multicore, multisocket nodes. Previous work has shown that energy efficiency can be improved using software-controlled execution schemes that consider both the programming model and the power-aware execution capabilities of the system. However, such approaches have focused on identifying optimal resource utilization for one programming model, either shared memory or message passing, in isolation. The potential solution space, thus the challenge, increases substantially when optimizing hybrid models since the possible resource configurations increase exponentially. Nonetheless, with the accelerating adoption of hybrid programming models, we increasingly need improved energy efficiency in hybrid parallel applications on large-scale systems. In this work, we present new software-controlled execution schemes that consider the effects of dynamic concurrency throttling (DCT) and dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) in the context of hybrid programming models. Specifically, we present predictive models and novel algorithms based on statistical analysis that anticipate application power and time requirements under different concurrency and frequency configurations. Furthermore, we apply our models and methods to the NPB MZ benchmarks and selected applications from the ASC Sequoia codes. Overall, we achieve substantial energy savings (8.74 percent on average and up to 13.8 percent) with some performance gain (up to 7.5 percent) or negligible performance loss.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); European Commission (EC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-07NA27344; 224759; CNS-0905187; CNS-0910784; CCF-0848670; CNS-0709025; CNS-0720750
OSTI ID:
1734607
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-521391; 551350
Journal Information:
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 24, Issue 1; ISSN 1045-9219
Publisher:
IEEECopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 34 works
Citation information provided by
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