The ICARUS White Paper: A Scalable, Energy-Efficient, Solar-Powered HPC Center Based on Low Power GPUs
| Autor: | Daniel Tomaschewski, David Schneider, Stefan Turek, Christoph Höppke, Daniel Donner, Hannes Ruelmann, Markus Geveler, Dirk Ribbrock |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Battery (electricity)
020203 distributed computing business.industry Computer science Photovoltaic system 02 engineering and technology Supercomputer Embedded system Scalability 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing General-purpose computing on graphics processing units business Solar power Efficient energy use Nominal power (photovoltaic) |
| Zdroj: | Euro-Par 2016: Parallel Processing Workshops ISBN: 9783319589428 Euro-Par Workshops |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-58943-5_59 |
| Popis: | We present a unique approach for integrating research in High Performance Computing (HPC) as well as photovoltaic (PV) solar farming and battery technologies into a container-based compute center designed for a maximum of energy efficiency, performance and extensibility/scalability. We use NVIDIA Jetson TK1 boards to build a considerably dimensioned cluster of 60 low-power GPUs, attach a 7.5 kWp solar farm and a 8 kWh Lithium-Ion battery power supply and integrate everything into a single-container, standalone housing. We demonstrate the success of our system by evaluating the performance and energy efficiency for common versatile dense and sparse linear algebra kernels as well as a full CFD code. By this work we can show, that with current technology, energy consumption-induced follow-up cost of HPC can be reduced to zero. |
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