ABSTRACT
The presence of pervasive slack provides ample opportunities for achieving energy efficiency for HPC systems nowadays. Regardless of communication slack, classic energy saving approaches for saving energy during the slack otherwise include race-to-halt and CP-aware slack reclamation, which reply on power scaling techniques to adjust processor power states judiciously during the slack. Existing efforts demonstrate CP-aware slack reclamation is superior to race-to-halt in energy saving capability. In this paper, we formally model our observation that the energy saving capability gap between the two approaches is significantly narrowed down on today's processors, given that state-of-the-art CMOS technologies allow insignificant variation of supply voltage as operating frequency of a processor scales. Experimental results on a large-scale power-aware cluster validate our findings.
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