Authors: | Geveler, Markus Ribbrock, Dirk Donner, Daniel Ruelmann, Hannes Höppke, Christoph Schneider, David Tomaschewski, Daniel Turek, Stefan |
Title: | The ICARUS white paper. A scalable energy-efficient, solar-powered HPC center based on low power GPUs |
Language (ISO): | en |
Abstract: | We present a unique approach for integrating research in High Performance Computing (HPC) as well as photovoltaic (PV) solar farming and battery technologies into a container-based compute center designed for a maximum of energy efficiency, performance and extensibility/scalability. We use NVIDIA Jetson TK1 boards to build a considerably dimensioned cluster of 60 low-power GPUs, attach a 7:5 kWp solar farm and a 8 kWh Lithium-Ion battery power supply and integrate everything into a single-container, standalone housing. We demonstrate the success of our system by evaluating the performance and energy efficiency for common versatile dense and sparse linear algebra kernels as well as a full CFD code. By this work we can show, that with current technology, energy consumption-induced follow-up cost of HPC can be reduced to zero. |
Subject Headings: | energy-efficient HPC ARM cluster GPGPU solar power battery power supply |
Subject Headings (RSWK): | Hochleistungsrechnen Energieeffizienz Solarenergie |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2003/35960 http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-17983 |
Issue Date: | 2017-04 |
Appears in Collections: | Ergebnisberichte des Instituts für Angewandte Mathematik |
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