About
The growing scales of enterprise computing environments and datacenters have made issues related to power consumption, air conditioning, and cooling infrastructures of critical concern in terms of the growing operating costs of both power and cooling. Furthermore, power and cooling rates are increasing by an alarming 8 fold every year and are becoming the dominant part of IT budgets. Clearly, addressing this problem quickly and effectively is a crucial issue for enterprise and HPC datacenters.
The GreenHPC initiative at Rutgers is a research and educational initiative aiming at addressing these issues from an application-aware perspective. GreenHPC also acts as a forum for researchers and the educational community to exchange ideas and experiences on energy efficiency by disseminating research results, educational activities at different levels ((PhD, MS, undergraduate - REU, High School - GSET) and organizing events and editorial activities of related topics.
The research activities of GreenHPC are based on autonomic application agnostic approaches for energy efficiency for HPC workloads at different levels. We propose to improve datacenter energy efficiency and costs from an end-to-end management point of view with the help of workload characterization, online data analysis, models, and environment monitoring. We target traditional HPC systems, virtualized environments and future/experimental platforms.
Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Application-Awareness; High Performance Computing; Power Management; Thermal Management; Virtualization
Sponsors
The research at GreenHPC is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and members of the Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center.
Highlights
Paper accepted at HiPC 2011 ("Adaptive Memory Power Management Techniques for HPC Workloads") - More
Summer 2011: New Jersey Governor's School of Engineering and Technology - More
ORAU Workshop on Green High Performance Computing (Green HPC), October 17 (tentative), CoRE building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA - More
Second International Workshop on Energy Efficient High-Performance Computing (EEHiPC'11), December 18, 2010, Bangalore, India - More
Special issue of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM) on Green High Performance Computing (Green HPC) - More
