Quantifying the impact of GPUs on performance and energy efficiency in HPC clusters

2010 International Conference on Green Computing, Green Comp 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 317-324

  Enos, Jeremy ^a   Steffen, Craig ^a   Fullop, Joshi ^a   Showerman, Michael ^a   Shi, Guochun ^a   Esler, Kenneth ^a   Kindratenko, Volodymyr ^a   Stone, John E ^a   Phillips, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster; GPU; Power efficiency; Power monitoring

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER; CLUSTER MANAGEMENT; GPU; HARDWARE SYSTEM; HARDWARE/SOFTWARE; HPC CLUSTERS; POWER EFFICIENCY; POWER MONITORING; POWER USAGE; SOFTWARE STACKS;

MONITORING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 78449292888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GREENCOMP.2010.5598297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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