Towards Efficient Supercomputing: Searching for the Right Efficiency Metric

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2012

OSTI ID:1050408

Hsu, Chung-Hsing ^[1]; Kuehn, Jeffery A ^[1]; Poole, Stephen W ^[1]

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1. ORNL

The efficiency of supercomputing has traditionally been in the execution time. In early 2000 s, the concept of total cost of ownership was re-introduced, with the introduction of efficiency measure to include aspects such as energy and space. Yet the supercomputing community has never agreed upon a metric that can cover these aspects altogether and also provide a fair basis for comparison. This paper exam- ines the metrics that have been proposed in the past decade, and proposes a vector-valued metric for efficient supercom- puting. Using this metric, the paper presents a study of where the supercomputing industry has been and how it stands today with respect to efficient supercomputing.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS)
• Sponsoring Organization: Work for Others (WFO)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1050408
• Resource Relation: Conference: 3rd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2012), Boston, MA, USA, 20120422, 20120425
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
EFFICIENCY
METRICS
OWNERSHIP
PERFORMANCE
SUPERCOMPUTERS