A Unified Platform for Exploring Power Management Strategies

Abstract

Power is quickly becoming a first class resource management concern in HPC. Upcoming HPC systems will likely be hardware over-provisioned, which will require enhanced power management subsystems to prevent service interruption. To advance the state of the art in HPC power management research, we are implementing SLURM plugins to explore a range of power-aware scheduling strategies. Our goal is to develop a coherent platform that allows for a direct comparison of various power-aware approaches on research as well as production clusters.