The green index: A metric for evaluating system-wide energy efficiency in HPC systems

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1007-1013

  Subramaniam, Balaji ^a   Feng, Wu Chun ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Energy Efficiciency; Green Index

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK SUITES; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY-EFFICICIENCY; FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS; GREEN INDICES; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; SYSTEM-WIDE ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84867423348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2012.123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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