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GPUs are prevalent in modern computing systems at all scales. They consume a significant fraction of the energy in these systems. However, vendors do not publish the actual cost of the power/energy overhead of their internal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Yehia Arafa , Ammar ElWazir , Abdelrahman ElKanishy , Youssef Aly , Ayatelrahman Elsayed , Abdel-Hameed Badawy , Gopinath Chennupati , Stephan Eidenbenz , Nandakishore Santhi

As supercomputers grow in size and complexity, power efficiency has become a critical challenge, particularly in understanding GPU power consumption within modern HPC workloads. This work addresses this challenge by presenting a data…

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Hybrid computational architectures based on the joint power of Central Processing Units and Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming popular and powerful hardware tools for a wide range of simulations in biology, chemistry, engineering,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Mario Spera

The GPU has emerged as the go-to accelerator for high throughput and parallel workloads, spanning scientific simulations to AI, thanks to its performance and power efficiency. Given that 6 out of the top 10 fastest supercomputers in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Zeyu Yang , Karel Adamek , Wesley Armour

Heterogeneous processors with architecturally different cores (CPU and GPU) integrated on the same die lead to new challenges and opportunities for thermal and power management techniques because of shared thermal/power budgets between…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Kapil Dev , Indrani Paul , Wei Huang , Yasuko Eckert , Wayne Burleson , Sherief Reda

Modern computing paradigms, such as cloud computing, are increasingly adopting GPUs to boost their computing capabilities primarily due to the heterogeneous nature of AI/ML/deep learning workloads. However, the energy consumption of GPUs is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Shashikant Ilager , Rajeev Muralidhar , Kotagiri Rammohanrao , Rajkumar Buyya

The growing energy demands of HPC systems have made energy efficiency a critical concern for system developers and operators. However, HPC users are generally less aware of how these energy concerns influence the design, deployment, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Estela Suarez , Jorge Amaya , Martin Frank , Oliver Freyermuth , Maria Girone , Bartosz Kostrzewa , Susanne Pfalzner

As high energy physics experiments reach higher luminosities and intensities, the computing burden for real time data processing and reduction grows. Following the developments in the computing landscape, multi-core processors such as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Dorothea vom Bruch

Modern GPU-rich HPC systems are increasingly becoming energy-constrained. Thus, understanding an application's energy consumption becomes essential. Unfortunately, current GPU energy attribution techniques are either inaccurate, inflexible,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Brandon Tran , Matthias Maiterth , Woong Shin , Matthew D. Sinclair , Shivaram Venkataraman

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have revolutionized the computing landscape over the past decade. However, the growing energy demands of data centres and computing facilities equipped with GPUs come with significant capital and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Richard Schoonhoven , Bram Veenboer , Ben van Werkhoven , Kees Joost Batenburg

Searching for sources of electromagnetic emission in spectral-line radio astronomy interferometric data is a computationally intensive process. Parallel programming techniques and High Performance Computing hardware may be used to improve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-20 Stefan Westerlund , Christopher Harris

The exponential growth of floating point power in graphics processing units (GPUs), together with their low cost, has given rise to an attractive platform upon which to deploy lattice QCD calculations. GPUs are essentially many (O(100))…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-05 M. A. Clark

The graphics processing unit (GPU) has emerged as a powerful and cost effective processor for general performance computing. GPUs are capable of an order of magnitude more floating-point operations per second as compared to modern central…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-24 Mark Franey , Pritam Ranjan , Hugh Chipman

Scientists are increasingly exploring and utilizing the massive parallelism of general-purpose accelerators such as GPUs for scientific breakthroughs. As a result, datacenters, hyperscalers, national computing centers, and supercomputers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Prasoon Sinha , Akhil Guliani , Rutwik Jain , Brandon Tran , Matthew D. Sinclair , Shivaram Venkataraman

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are specialized accelerators in data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) systems, enabling the fast execution of compute-intensive applications, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Giuseppe Esposito , Juan-David Guerrero-Balaguera , Josie Esteban Rodriguez Condia , Matteo Sonza Reorda , Marco Barbiero , Rossella Fortuna

The increasing complexity and scale of cosmological N-body simulations, driven by astronomical surveys like Euclid, call for a paradigm shift towards more sustainable and energy-efficient high-performance computing (HPC). The rising energy…

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) can speed up the numerical solution of various problems in astrophysics including the dynamical evolution of stellar systems; the performance gain can be more than a factor 100 compared to using a Central…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-28 Mario Spera

Power is increasingly becoming a limiting resource in high-performance, GPU-accelerated computing systems. Understanding the range and sources of power variation is essential in setting realistic bounds on rack and system peak power, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Sridutt Bhalachandra , Brian Austin , Samuel Williams , Nicholas J. Wright

The scale of scientific High Performance Computing (HPC) and High Throughput Computing (HTC) has increased significantly in recent years, and is becoming sensitive to total energy use and cost. Energy-efficiency has thus become an important…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-14 David Abdurachmanov , Peter Elmer , Giulio Eulisse , Robert Knight , Tapio Niemi , Jukka K. Nurminen , Filip Nyback , Goncalo Pestana , Zhonghong Ou , Kashif Khan

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming popular accelerators in modern High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters. Installing GPUs on each node of the cluster is not efficient resulting in high costs and power consumption as well as…

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