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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

Energy is now a critical ML computing resource. While measuring energy consumption and observing trends is a valuable first step, accurately understanding and diagnosing why those differences occur is crucial for optimization. To that end,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jae-Won Chung , Ruofan Wu , Jeff J. Ma , Mosharaf Chowdhury

The expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) applications has driven substantial investment in computational infrastructure, especially by cloud computing providers. Quantifying the energy footprint of this infrastructure requires models…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Imran Latif , Alex C. Newkirk , Matthew R. Carbone , Arslan Munir , Yuewei Lin , Jonathan Koomey , Xi Yu , Zhiuha Dong

With high-performance computing systems now running at exascale, optimizing power-scaling management and resource utilization has become more critical than ever. This paper explores runtime power-capping optimizations that leverage…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Maria Patrou , Thomas Wang , Wael Elwasif , Markus Eisenbach , Ross Miller , William Godoy , Oscar Hernandez

Over the past years, great progress has been made in improving the computing power of general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs), which facilitates the prosperity of deep neural networks (DNNs) in multiple fields like computer…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Zhenheng Tang , Yuxin Wang , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Estimates of energy usage in layers of computing from devices to algorithms have been determined and analyzed. Building on the previous analysis [3], energy needed from single devices and systems including three large-scale computing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Sadasivan Shankar

Energy consumption has been a great deal of concern in recent years and developers need to take energy-efficiency into account when they design algorithms. Their design needs to be energy-efficient and low-power while it tries to achieve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Millad Ghane , Jeff Larkin , Larry Shi , Sunita Chandrasekaran , Margaret S. Cheung

The static estimation of the energy consumed by program executions is an important challenge, which has applications in program optimization and verification, and is instrumental in energy-aware software development. Our objective is to…

Accurate and reliable measurement of energy consumption is critical for making well-informed design choices when choosing and training large scale NLP models. In this work, we show that existing software-based energy measurements are not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Qingqing Cao , Aruna Balasubramanian , Niranjan Balasubramanian

The rapid development in scientific research provides a need for more compute power, which is partly being solved by GPUs. This paper presents a microarchitectural analysis of the modern NVIDIA Blackwell architecture by studying GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Aaron Jarmusch , Nathan Graddon , Sunita Chandrasekaran

GPUs are the most popular platform for accelerating HPC workloads, such as artificial intelligence and science simulations. However, most microarchitectural research in academia relies on GPU core pipeline designs based on architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Rodrigo Huerta , Mojtaba Abaie Shoushtary , José-Lorenzo Cruz , Antonio González

With heterogeneous systems, the number of GPUs per chip increases to provide computational capabilities for solving science at a nanoscopic scale. However, low utilization for single GPUs defies the need to invest more money for expensive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tanzima Z. Islam , Aniruddha Marathe , Holland Schutte , Mohammad Zaeed

Modern large-scale computing systems (data centers, supercomputers, cloud and edge setups and high-end cyber-physical systems) employ heterogeneous architectures that consist of multicore CPUs, general-purpose many-core GPUs, and…

Every year, novel NVIDIA GPU designs are introduced. This rapid architectural and technological progression, coupled with a reluctance by manufacturers to disclose low-level details, makes it difficult for even the most proficient GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Zhe Jia , Marco Maggioni , Benjamin Staiger , Daniele P. Scarpazza

Energy efficiency has become one of the top design criteria for current computing systems. The dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) has been widely adopted by laptop computers, servers, and mobile devices to conserve energy, while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Xinxin Mei , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Deep Learning (DL) applications are gaining momentum in the realm of Artificial Intelligence, particularly after GPUs have demonstrated remarkable skills for accelerating their challenging computational requirements. Within this context,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Francisco M. Castro , Nicolás Guil , Manuel J. Marín-Jiménez , Jesús Pérez-Serrano , Manuel Ujaldón

We characterize the GPU energy usage of two widely adopted exascale-ready applications representing two classes of particle and mesh solvers: (i) QMCPACK, a quantum Monte Carlo package, and (ii) AMReXCastro, an adaptive mesh astrophysical…

Power management is an expensive and important issue for large computational infrastructures such as datacenters, large clusters, and computational grids. However, measuring energy consumption of scalable systems may be impractical due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Lucas Venezian Povoa , Cesar Marcondes , Hermes Senger

With the rise of AI in recent years and the increase in complexity of the models, the growing demand in computational resources is starting to pose a significant challenge. The need for higher compute power is being met with increasingly…

In particular, large-scale deep learning and artificial intelligence model training uses a lot of computational power and energy, so it poses serious sustainability issues. The fast rise in model complexity has resulted in exponential…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yashasvi Makin , Rahul Maliakkal