Workshop on Green High Performance Computing (Green HPC)


Monday October 17, 2011, Rutgers University, Busch Campus. Piscataway, NJ


Workshop Organizers: Manish Parashar, Ricardo Bianchini and Ivan Rodero

 
  		  

           
  

Purpose


The goals of the workshop are to discuss research directions and challenges in power, energy, and temperature management for high-performance computing (HPC) systems; identify opportunities for collaborations between some of the key research groups in this area; and develop a research agenda for the future.

The workshop will involve a keynote address, two invited talks, two panels, and a final open discussion. The presenters will discuss architectures, systems, applications, and algorithms designed for power, energy, and temperature management, as well as current and upcoming national initiatives and funding opportunities.

Scope


The growing scale of HPC systems and data centers has made power, energy, and temperature become critical issues for these systems. High-end HPC systems today consume several megawatts of power, enough to power small towns. The cost of powering these systems is in the millions of dollars per year, and is increasing fast as they target Petascale and eventually Exascale performance.

At the same time, new hardware and software technologies are creating exciting opportunities for power, energy, and temperature management in these systems. As a few examples of these technologies, designers have been introducing a variety of lower power modes into hardware components; advances in virtualization are enabling the efficient consolidation of data- and compute-intensive applications to increase efficiency; and researchers have been introducing new energy-aware algorithms for many existing problems. It is incumbent upon academia and industry to explore and exploit these technologies and opportunities to the fullest extent. Moreover, it is time for us to devise the next wave of technologies that can facilitate power, energy, and temperature management further.

Location and Directions


The meeting will take place on the Busch Campus of Rutgers University in the Auditorium of the CoRE Building.

Detailed directions, including hotel, parking, and mass transit information, are available from the Directions Page.

Registration


To register for the workshop, fill out the form at http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/GreenHPC/.

Tentative List of Participants


  • Abhishek Bhattacharjee (Rutgers University)
  • Ricardo Bianchini (Rutgers University)
  • Pradip Bose (IBM Watson)
  • Kirk Cameron (Virginia Tech)
  • John Carter (IBM Austin)
  • Chita Das (Pennsylvania State University)
  • Wu Feng (Virgina Tech)
  • Inigo Goiri (Rutgers University)
  • Sandeep Gupta (Arizona State University)
  • Sudhanva Gurumurthi (University of Virginia)
  • Chung-Hsing Hsu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
  • Canturk Isci (IBM Watson)
  • Krishna Kant (NSF and Intel)
  • Uli Kremer (Rutgers University)
  • David Lowenthal (University of Arizona)
  • Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University)
  • Thu D. Nguyen (Rutgers University)
  • Manish Parashar (Rutgers University)
  • Steve Poole (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
  • Sanjay Ranka (University of Florida)
  • Steve Roberts (ORAU)
  • Ivan Rodero (Rutgers University)
  • Barry Rountree (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
  • Sartaj Sahni (University of Florida)
  • Christopher Stewart (Ohio State University)
  • Jordi Torres (Barcelona Supercomputing Center/UPC)
  • Bhuvan Urgaonkar (Pennsylvania State University)
  • Thomas Wenisch (University of Michigan)

Tentative Agenda


9:00am Opening
9:05am Welcome by Steve Roberts, ORAU
9:15am Keynote Talk by Krishna Kant, NSF [PDF]
10:15am Break / Poster Session
10:30am Short talk 1: Systems and Architecture by John Carter, IBM Austin
11:00am Panel 1: Challenges and Opportunities in Systems and Architecture
Moderator: Ricardo Bianchini
Panelists: John Carter, Chita Das, Sandeep Gupta, Krishna Kant, and Margaret Martonosi
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Short talk 2: Applications and Algorithms by Kirk Cameron, Virginia Tech
2:30pm Panel 2: Challenges and Opportunities in Applications and Algorithms
Moderator: Manish Parashar
Panelists: Kirk Cameron, Wu Feng, David Lowenthal, and Sartaj Sahni
4:00pm Break / Posters Session
4:15pm Discussion: Research Agenda for the Future
5:00pm Closing



LAST MODIFIED: October 8, 2011