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56 \title{Energy Consumption Reduction in heterogeneous architecture using DVFS}
67 University of Franche-Comté\\
68 IUT de Belfort-Montbéliard,
69 19 avenue du Maréchal Juin, BP 527, 90016 Belfort cedex, France\\
70 % Telephone: \mbox{+33 3 84 58 77 86}, % Raphaël
71 % Fax: \mbox{+33 3 84 58 77 81}\\ % Dept Info
72 Email: \email{{jean-claude.charr,raphael.couturier,ahmed.fanfakh_badri_muslim,arnaud.giersch}@univ-fcomte.fr}
82 \section{Introduction}
86 \section{Related works}
92 \section{The performance and energy consumption measurements on heterogeneous architecture}
95 % \JC{The whole subsection ``Parallel Tasks Execution on Homogeneous Platform'',
96 % can be deleted if we need space, we can just say we are interested in this
97 % paper in homogeneous clusters}
99 \subsection{The execution time of message passing distributed iterative applications on a heterogeneous platform}
101 In this paper, we are interested in reducing the energy consumption of message
102 passing distributed iterative synchronous applications running over
103 heterogeneous platforms. We define a heterogeneous platform as a collection of
104 heterogeneous computing nodes interconnected via a high speed homogeneous
105 network. Therefore, each node has different characteristics such as computing
106 power (FLOPS), energy consumption, CPU's frequency range, \dots{} but they all
107 have the same network bandwidth and latency.
112 \includegraphics[scale=0.6]{fig/commtasks}
113 \caption{Parallel tasks on a heterogeneous platform}
117 The overall execution time of a distributed iterative synchronous application over a heterogeneous platform consists of the sum of the computation time and the communication time for every iteration on a node. However, due to the heterogeneous computation power of the computing nodes, slack times might occur when fast nodes have to
118 wait, during synchronous communications, for the slower nodes to finish their computations (see Figure~(\ref{fig:heter})).
119 Therefore, the overall execution time of the program is the execution time of the slowest
120 task which have the highest computation time and no slack time.
122 Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) is a process, implemented in modern processors, that reduces the energy consumption
123 of a CPU by scaling down its voltage and frequency. Since DVFS lowers the frequency of a CPU and consequently its computing power, the execution time of a program running over that scaled down processor might increase, especially if the program is compute bound. The frequency reduction process can be expressed by the scaling factor S which is the ratio between the maximum and the new frequency of a CPU as in EQ (\ref{eq:s}).
126 S = \frac{F_\textit{max}}{F_\textit{new}}
128 The execution time of a compute bound sequential program is linearly proportional to the frequency scaling factor $S$.
129 On the other hand, message passing distributed applications consist of two parts: computation and communication. The execution time of the computation part is linearly proportional to the frequency scaling factor $S$ but the communication time is not affected by the scaling factor because the processors involved remain idle during the communications~\cite{17}. The communication time for a task is the summation of periods of time that begin with an MPI call for sending or receiving a message till the message is synchronously sent or received.
131 Since in a heterogeneous platform, each node has different characteristics,
132 especially different frequency gears, when applying DVFS operations on these
133 nodes, they may get different scaling factors represented by a scaling vector:
134 $(S_1, S_2,\dots, S_N)$ where $S_i$ is the scaling factor of processor $i$. To
135 be able to predict the execution time of message passing synchronous iterative
136 applications running over a heterogeneous platform, for different vectors of
137 scaling factors, the communication time and the computation time for all the
138 tasks must be measured during the first iteration before applying any DVFS
139 operation. Then the execution time for one iteration of the application with any
140 vector of scaling factors can be predicted using EQ (\ref{eq:perf}).
143 \textit T_\textit{new} =
144 \max_{i=1,2,\dots,N} (TcpOld_{i} \cdot S_{i}) + MinTcm
146 where $TcpOld_i$ is the computation time of processor $i$ during the first iteration and $MinTcm$ is the communication time of the slowest processor from the first iteration. The model computes the maximum computation time
147 with scaling factor from each node added to the communication time of the slowest node, it means only the
148 communication time without any slack time. Therefore, we can consider the execution time of the iterative application is equal to the execution time of one iteration as in EQ(\ref{eq:perf}) multiplied by the number of iterations of that application.
150 This prediction model is based on our model for predicting the execution time of message passing distributed applications for homogeneous architectures~\cite{45}. The execution time prediction model is used in our method for optimizing both energy consumption and performance of iterative methods, which is presented in the following sections.
153 \subsection{Energy model for heterogeneous platform}
155 Many researchers~\cite{9,3,15,26} divide the power consumed by a processor into
156 two power metrics: the static and the dynamic power. While the first one is
157 consumed as long as the computing unit is turned on, the latter is only consumed during
158 computation times. The dynamic power $P_{d}$ is related to the switching
159 activity $\alpha$, load capacitance $C_L$, the supply voltage $V$ and
160 operational frequency $F$, as shown in EQ(\ref{eq:pd}).
163 P_\textit{d} = \alpha \cdot C_L \cdot V^2 \cdot F
165 The static power $P_{s}$ captures the leakage power as follows:
168 P_\textit{s} = V \cdot N_{trans} \cdot K_{design} \cdot I_{leak}
170 where V is the supply voltage, $N_{trans}$ is the number of transistors,
171 $K_{design}$ is a design dependent parameter and $I_{leak}$ is a
172 technology-dependent parameter. The energy consumed by an individual processor
173 to execute a given program can be computed as:
176 E_\textit{ind} = P_\textit{d} \cdot Tcp + P_\textit{s} \cdot T
178 where $T$ is the execution time of the program, $T_{cp}$ is the computation
179 time and $T_{cp} \leq T$. $T_{cp}$ may be equal to $T$ if there is no
180 communication and no slack time.
182 The main objective of DVFS operation is to
183 reduce the overall energy consumption~\cite{37}. The operational frequency $F$
184 depends linearly on the supply voltage $V$, i.e., $V = \beta \cdot F$ with some
185 constant $\beta$. This equation is used to study the change of the dynamic
186 voltage with respect to various frequency values in~\cite{3}. The reduction
187 process of the frequency can be expressed by the scaling factor $S$ which is the
188 ratio between the maximum and the new frequency as in EQ~(\ref{eq:s}).
189 The CPU governors are power schemes supplied by the operating
190 system's kernel to lower a core's frequency. we can calculate the new frequency
191 $F_{new}$ from EQ(\ref{eq:s}) as follow:
194 F_\textit{new} = S^{-1} \cdot F_\textit{max}
196 Replacing $F_{new}$ in EQ(\ref{eq:pd}) as in EQ(\ref{eq:fnew}) gives the following equation for dynamic
200 {P}_\textit{dNew} = \alpha \cdot C_L \cdot V^2 \cdot F_{new} = \alpha \cdot C_L \cdot \beta^2 \cdot F_{new}^3 \\
201 {} = \alpha \cdot C_L \cdot V^2 \cdot F_{max} \cdot S^{-3} = P_{dOld} \cdot S^{-3}
203 where $ {P}_\textit{dNew}$ and $P_{dOld}$ are the dynamic power consumed with the new frequency and the maximum frequency respectively.
205 According to EQ(\ref{eq:pdnew}) the dynamic power is reduced by a factor of $S^{-3}$ when
206 reducing the frequency by a factor of $S$~\cite{3}. Since the FLOPS of a CPU is proportional to the frequency of a CPU, the computation time is increased proportionally to $S$. The new dynamic energy is the dynamic power multiplied by the new time of computation and is given by the following equation:
209 E_\textit{dNew} = P_{dOld} \cdot S^{-3} \cdot (Tcp \cdot S)= S^{-2}\cdot P_{dOld} \cdot Tcp
211 The static power is related to the power leakage of the CPU and is consumed during computation and even when idle. As in~\cite{3,46}, we assume that the static power of a processor is constant during idle and computation periods, and for all its available frequencies.
212 The static energy is the static power multiplied by the execution time of the program. According to the execution time model in EQ(\ref{eq:perf}),
213 the execution time of the program is the summation of the computation and the communication times. The computation time is linearly related
214 to the frequency scaling factor, while this scaling factor does not affect the communication time. The static energy
215 of a processor after scaling its frequency is computed as follows:
218 E_\textit{s} = P_\textit{s} \cdot (Tcp \cdot S + Tcm)
221 In the considered heterogeneous platform, each processor $i$ might have different dynamic and static powers, noted as $Pd_{i}$ and $Ps_{i}$ respectively. Therefore, even if the distributed message passing iterative application is load balanced, the computation time of each CPU $i$ noted $Tcp_{i}$ might be different and different frequency scaling factors might be computed in order to decrease the overall energy consumption of the application and reduce the slack times. The communication time of a processor $i$ is noted as $Tcm_{i}$ and could contain slack times if it is communicating with slower nodes, see figure(\ref{fig:heter}). Therefore, all nodes do not have equal communication times. While the dynamic energy is computed according to the frequency scaling factor and the dynamic power of each node as in EQ(\ref{eq:Edyn}), the static energy is computed as the sum of the execution time of each processor multiplied by its static power. The overall energy consumption of a message passing distributed application executed over a heterogeneous platform during one iteration is the summation of all dynamic and static energies for each processor. It is computed as follows:
224 E = \sum_{i=1}^{N} {(S_i^{-2} \cdot Pd_{i} \cdot Tcp_i)} + {} \\
225 \sum_{i=1}^{N} (Ps_{i} \cdot (\max_{i=1,2,\dots,N} (Tcp_i \cdot S_{i}) +
229 Reducing the frequencies of the processors according to the vector of
230 scaling factors $(S_1, S_2,\dots, S_N)$ may degrade the performance of the
231 application and thus, increase the static energy because the execution time is
232 increased~\cite{36}. We can measure the overall energy consumption for the iterative
233 application by measuring the energy consumption for one iteration as in EQ(\ref{eq:energy}) multiplied by
234 the number of iterations of that application.
237 \section{Optimization of both energy consumption and performance}
240 Using the lowest frequency for each processor does not necessarily gives the most energy efficient execution of an application. Indeed, even though the dynamic power is reduced while scaling down the frequency of a processor, its computation power is proportionally decreased and thus the execution time might be drastically increased during which dynamic and static powers are being consumed. Therefore, it might cancel any gains achieved by scaling down the frequency of all nodes to the minimum and the overall energy consumption of the application might not be the optimal one. It is not trivial to select the appropriate frequency scaling factor for each processor while considering the characteristics of each processor (computation power, range of frequencies, dynamic and static powers) and the task executed (computation/communication ratio) in order to reduce the overall energy consumption and not significantly increase the execution time. In our previous work~\cite{45}, we proposed a method that selects the optimal
241 frequency scaling factor for a homogeneous cluster executing a message passing iterative synchronous application while giving the best trade-off
242 between the energy consumption and the performance for such applications. In this work we are interested in
243 heterogeneous clusters as described above. Due to the heterogeneity of the processors, not one but a vector of scaling factors should be selected and it must give the best trade-off between energy consumption and performance.
245 The relation between the energy consumption and the execution
246 time for an application is complex and nonlinear, Thus, unlike the relation between the execution time
247 and the scaling factor, the relation of the energy with the frequency scaling
248 factors is nonlinear, for more details refer to~\cite{17}. Moreover, they are
249 not measured using the same metric. To solve this problem, we normalize the
250 execution time by computing the ratio between the new execution time (after scaling down the frequencies of some processors) and the initial one (with maximum frequency for all nodes,) as follows:
253 P_\textit{Norm} = \frac{T_\textit{New}}{T_\textit{Old}}\\
254 {} = \frac{ \max_{i=1,2,\dots,N} (Tcp_{i} \cdot S_{i}) +MinTcm}
255 {\max_{i=1,2,\dots,N}{(Tcp_i+Tcm_i)}}
259 In the same way, we normalize the energy by computing the ratio between the consumed energy while scaling down the frequency and the consumed energy with maximum frequency for all nodes:
262 E_\textit{Norm} = \frac{E_\textit{Reduced}}{E_\textit{Original}} \\
263 {} = \frac{ \sum_{i=1}^{N}{(S_i^{-2} \cdot Pd_i \cdot Tcp_i)} +
264 \sum_{i=1}^{N} {(Ps_i \cdot T_{New})}}{\sum_{i=1}^{N}{( Pd_i \cdot Tcp_i)} +
265 \sum_{i=1}^{N} {(Ps_i \cdot T_{Old})}}
267 Where $T_{New}$ and $T_{Old}$ are computed as in EQ(\ref{eq:pnorm}).
270 goal is to optimize the energy and execution time at the same time, the normalized energy and execution time curves are not in the same direction. According
271 to the equations~(\ref{eq:enorm}) and~(\ref{eq:pnorm}), the vector of frequency
272 scaling factors $S_1,S_2,\dots,S_N$ reduce both the energy and the execution
273 time simultaneously. But the main objective is to produce maximum energy
274 reduction with minimum execution time reduction.
276 Many researchers used different strategies to solve this nonlinear problem for example
277 in~\cite{19,42}, their methods add big overheads to the algorithm to select the
278 suitable frequency. In this paper we present a method to find the optimal
279 set of frequency scaling factors to simultaneously optimize both energy and execution time
280 without adding a big overhead. \textbf{put the last two phrases in the related work section}
283 Our solution for this problem is to make the optimization process for energy and execution time follow the same
284 direction. Therefore, we inverse the equation of the normalized execution time which gives
285 the normalized performance equation, as follows:
288 P_\textit{Norm} = \frac{T_\textit{Old}}{T_\textit{New}}\\
289 = \frac{\max_{i=1,2,\dots,N}{(Tcp_i+Tcm_i)}}
290 { \max_{i=1,2,\dots,N} (Tcp_{i} \cdot S_{i}) + MinTcm}
296 \subfloat[Homogeneous platform]{%
297 \includegraphics[width=.22\textwidth]{fig/homo}\label{fig:r1}}%
299 \subfloat[Heterogeneous platform]{%
300 \includegraphics[width=.22\textwidth]{fig/heter}\label{fig:r2}}
302 \caption{The energy and performance relation}
305 Then, we can model our objective function as finding the maximum distance
306 between the energy curve EQ~(\ref{eq:enorm}) and the performance
307 curve EQ~(\ref{eq:pnorm_inv}) over all available sets of scaling factors. This
308 represents the minimum energy consumption with minimum execution time (maximum
309 performance) at the same time, see figure~(\ref{fig:r1}) or figure~(\ref{fig:r2}) . Then our objective
310 function has the following form:
314 \max_{i=1,\dots F, j=1,\dots,N}
315 (\overbrace{P_\textit{Norm}(S_{ij})}^{\text{Maximize}} -
316 \overbrace{E_\textit{Norm}(S_{ij})}^{\text{Minimize}} )
318 where $N$ is the number of nodes and $F$ is the number of available frequencies for each nodes.
319 Then we can select the optimal set of scaling factors that satisfies EQ~(\ref{eq:max}). Our objective function can
320 work with any energy model or any power values for each node (static and dynamic powers).
321 However, the most energy reduction gain can be achieved when the energy curve has a convex form as shown in~\cite{15,3,19}.
323 \section{The scaling factors selection algorithm for heterogeneous platforms }
326 In this section we propose algorithm~\ref{HSA}) which selects the frequency scaling factors vector that gives the best trade-off between minimizing the energy consumption and maximizing the performance of a message passing synchronous iterative application executed on a heterogeneous platform.
327 IT works online during the execution time of the iterative message passing program. It uses information gathered during the first iteration such as the computation time and the communication time in one iteration for each node. The algorithm is executed after the first iteration and returns a vector of optimal frequency scaling factors that satisfies the objective function EQ(\ref{eq:max}). The program apply DVFS operations to change the frequencies of the CPUs according to the computed scaling factors. This algorithm is called just once during the execution of the program. Algorithm~(\ref{dvfs}) shows where and when the proposed scaling algorithm is called in the iterative MPI program.
330 The nodes in a heterogeneous platform have different computing powers, thus while executing message passing iterative synchronous applications, fast nodes have to wait for the slower ones to finish their computations before being able to synchronously communicate with them as in figure (\ref{fig:heter}). These periods are called idle or slack times.
331 Our algorithm takes into account this problem and tries to reduce these slack times when selecting the frequency scaling factors vector. At first, it selects initial frequency scaling factors that increase the execution times of fast nodes and minimize the differences between the computation times of fast and slow nodes. The value of the initial frequency scaling factor for each node is inversely proportional to its computation time that was gathered from the first iteration. These initial frequency scaling factors are computed as a ratio between the computation time of the slowest node and the computation time of the node $i$ as follows:
334 Scp_{i} = \frac{\max_{i=1,2,\dots,N}(Tcp_i)}{Tcp_i}
336 Using the initial frequency scaling factors computed in EQ(\ref{eq:Scp}), the algorithm computes the initial frequencies for all nodes as a ratio between the
337 maximum frequency of node $i$ and the computation scaling factor $Scp_i$ as follows:
340 F_{i} = \frac{Fmax_i}{Scp_i},~{i=1,2,\cdots,N}
342 If the computed initial frequency for a node is not available in the gears of that node, the computed initial frequency is replaced by the nearest available frequency.
343 In figure (\ref{fig:st_freq}), the nodes are sorted by their computing powers in ascending order and the frequencies of the faster nodes are scaled down according to the computed initial frequency scaling factors. The resulting new frequencies are colored in blue in figure (\ref{fig:st_freq}). This set of frequencies can be considered as a higher bound for the search space of the optimal set of frequencies because selecting frequency scaling factors higher than the higher bound will not improve the performance of the application and it will increase its overall energy consumption. Therefore the frequency selecting factors algorithm starts its search method from these initial frequencies and takes a downward search direction. The algorithm iterates on all left frequencies, from the higher bound until all nodes reach their minimum frequencies, to compute their overall energy consumption and performance, and select the optimal frequency scaling factors vector. At each iteration the algorithm determines the slowest node according to EQ(\ref{eq:perf}) and keeps its frequency unchanged, while it lowers the frequency of all other nodes by one gear. The new overall energy consumption and execution time are computed according to the new scaling factors. The optimal set of frequency scaling factors is the set that gives the highest distance according to the objective function EQ(\ref{eq:max}).
349 This algorithm has a small
350 execution time: for a heterogeneous cluster composed of four different types of
351 nodes having the characteristics presented in table~(\ref{table:platform}), it
352 takes \np[ms]{0.04} on average for 4 nodes and \np[ms]{0.15} on average for 144
353 nodes. The algorithm complexity is $O(F\cdot (N \cdot4) )$, where $F$ is the
354 number of iterations and $N$ is the number of computing nodes. The algorithm
355 needs on average from 12 to 20 iterations to selects the best vector of frequency scaling factors that give the results of the next section. \textbf{put the lst paragraph in experiments}
363 \begin{algorithmic}[1]
367 \item[$Tcp_i$] array of all computation times for all nodes during one iteration and with highest frequency.
368 \item[$Tcm_i$] array of all communication times for all nodes during one iteration and with highest frequency.
369 \item[$Fmax_i$] array of the maximum frequencies for all nodes.
370 \item[$Pd_i$] array of the dynamic powers for all nodes.
371 \item[$Ps_i$] array of the static powers for all nodes.
372 \item[$Fdiff_i$] array of the difference between two successive frequencies for all nodes.
374 \Ensure $Sopt_1,Sopt_2 \dots, Sopt_N$ is a vector of optimal scaling factors
376 \State $ Scp_i \gets \frac{\max_{i=1,2,\dots,N}(Tcp_i)}{Tcp_i} $
377 \State $F_{i} \gets \frac{Fmax_i}{Scp_i},~{i=1,2,\cdots,N}$
378 \State Round the computed initial frequencies $F_i$ to the closest one available in each node.
379 \If{(not the first frequency)}
380 \State $F_i \gets F_i+Fdiff_i,~i=1,\dots,N.$
382 \State $T_\textit{Old} \gets max_{~i=1,\dots,N } (Tcp_i+Tcm_i)$
383 \State $E_\textit{Original} \gets \sum_{i=1}^{N}{( Pd_i \cdot Tcp_i)} +\sum_{i=1}^{N} {(Ps_i \cdot T_{Old})}$
384 \State $Dist \gets 0$
385 \State $Sopt_{i} \gets 1,~i=1,\dots,N. $
386 \While {(all nodes not reach their minimum frequency)}
387 \If{(not the last freq. \textbf{and} not the slowest node)}
388 \State $F_i \gets F_i - Fdiff_i,~i=1,\dots,N.$
389 \State $S_i \gets \frac{Fmax_i}{F_i},~i=1,\dots,N.$
391 \State $T_{New} \gets max_\textit{~i=1,\dots,N} (Tcp_{i} \cdot S_{i}) + MinTcm $
392 \State $E_\textit{Reduced} \gets \sum_{i=1}^{N}{(S_i^{-2} \cdot Pd_i \cdot Tcp_i)} + $ \hspace*{43 mm}
393 $\sum_{i=1}^{N} {(Ps_i \cdot T_{New})} $
394 \State $ P_\textit{Norm} \gets \frac{T_\textit{Old}}{T_\textit{New}}$
395 \State $E_\textit{Norm}\gets \frac{E_\textit{Reduced}}{E_\textit{Original}}$
396 \If{$(\Pnorm - \Enorm > \Dist)$}
397 \State $Sopt_{i} \gets S_{i},~i=1,\dots,N. $
398 \State $\Dist \gets \Pnorm - \Enorm$
401 \State Return $Sopt_1,Sopt_2,\dots,Sopt_N$
403 \caption{Heterogeneous scaling algorithm}
408 \begin{algorithmic}[1]
410 \For {$k=1$ to \textit{some iterations}}
411 \State Computations section.
412 \State Communications section.
414 \State Gather all times of computation and\newline\hspace*{3em}%
415 communication from each node.
416 \State Call algorithm from Figure~\ref{HSA} with these times.
417 \State Compute the new frequencies from the\newline\hspace*{3em}%
418 returned optimal scaling factors.
419 \State Set the new frequencies to nodes.
423 \caption{DVFS algorithm}
427 \section{Experimental results}
430 The experiments of this work are executed on the simulator SimGrid/SMPI
431 v3.10~\cite{casanova+giersch+legrand+al.2014.versatile}. We are configure the
432 simulator to use a heterogeneous cluster with one core per node. The proposed
433 heterogeneous cluster has four different types of nodes. Each node in the cluster
434 has different characteristics such as the maximum frequency speed, the number of
435 available frequencies and dynamic and static powers values, see table
436 (\ref{table:platform}). These different types of processing nodes are simulate some
437 real Intel processors. The maximum number of nodes that supported by the cluster
438 is 144 nodes according to characteristics of some MPI programs of the NAS
439 benchmarks that used. We are use the same number from each type of nodes when we
440 run the iterative MPI programs, for example if we are execute the program on 8 node, there
441 are 2 nodes from each type participating in the computation. The dynamic and
442 static power values is different from one type to other. Each node has a dynamic
443 and static power values proportional to their computing power (FLOPS), for more
444 details see the Intel data sheets in \cite{47}. Each node has a percentage of
445 80\% for dynamic power and 20\% for static power of the total power
446 consumption of a CPU, the same assumption is made in \cite{45,3}. These nodes are
447 connected via an ethernet network with 1 Gbit/s bandwidth.
449 \caption{Heterogeneous nodes characteristics}
452 \begin{tabular}{|*{7}{l|}}
454 Node & Similar & Max & Min & Diff. & Dynamic & Static \\
455 type & to & Freq. GHz & Freq. GHz & Freq GHz & power & power \\
457 1 & core-i3 & 2.5 & 1.2 & 0.1 & 20~w &4~w \\
460 2 & Xeon & 2.66 & 1.6 & 0.133 & 25~w &5~w \\
463 3 & core-i5 & 2.9 & 1.2 & 0.1 & 30~w &6~w \\
466 4 & core-i7 & 3.4 & 1.6 & 0.133 & 35~w &7~w \\
470 \label{table:platform}
474 %\subsection{Performance prediction verification}
477 \subsection{The experimental results of the scaling algorithm}
480 The proposed algorithm was applied to seven MPI programs of the NAS benchmarks (EP, CG, MG, FT, BT, LU and SP) NPB v3.3
481 \cite{44}, which were run with three classes (A, B and C).
482 In this experiments we are interested to run the class C, the biggest class compared to A and B, on different number of
483 nodes, from 4 to 128 or 144 nodes according to the type of the iterative MPI program. Depending on the proposed energy consumption model EQ(\ref{eq:energy}),
484 we are measure the energy consumption for all NAS MPI programs. The dynamic and static power values are used under the same assumption used by \cite{45,3}, we are used a percentage of 80\% for dynamic power and 20\% for static of the total power consumption of a CPU. The heterogeneous nodes in table (\ref{table:platform}) have different simulated computing power (FLOPS), ranked from the node of type 1 with smaller computing power (FLOPS) to the highest computing power (FLOPS) for node of type 4. Therefore, the power values are used proportionally increased from nodes of type 1 to nodes of type 4 that with highest computing power. Then, we are used an assumption that the power consumption is increased linearly when the computing power (FLOPS) of the processor is increased, see \cite{48}.
487 \caption{Running NAS benchmarks on 4 nodes }
490 \begin{tabular}{|*{7}{l|}}
492 Method & Execution & Energy & Energy & Performance & Distance \\
493 name & time/s & consumption/J & saving\% & degradation\% & \\
495 CG & 64.64 & 3560.39 &34.16 &6.72 &27.44 \\
497 MG & 18.89 & 1074.87 &35.37 &4.34 &31.03 \\
499 EP &79.73 &5521.04 &26.83 &3.04 &23.79 \\
501 LU &308.65 &21126.00 &34.00 &6.16 &27.84 \\
503 BT &360.12 &21505.55 &35.36 &8.49 &26.87 \\
505 SP &234.24 &13572.16 &35.22 &5.70 &29.52 \\
507 FT &81.58 &4151.48 &35.58 &0.99 &34.59 \\
514 \caption{Running NAS benchmarks on 8 and 9 nodes }
517 \begin{tabular}{|*{7}{l|}}
519 Method & Execution & Energy & Energy & Performance & Distance \\
520 name & time/s & consumption/J & saving\% & degradation\% & \\
522 CG &36.11 &3263.49 &31.25 &7.12 &24.13 \\
524 MG &8.99 &953.39 &33.78 &6.41 &27.37 \\
526 EP &40.39 &5652.81 &27.04 &0.49 &26.55 \\
528 LU &218.79 &36149.77 &28.23 &0.01 &28.22 \\
530 BT &166.89 &23207.42 &32.32 &7.89 &24.43 \\
532 SP &104.73 &18414.62 &24.73 &2.78 &21.95 \\
534 FT &51.10 &4913.26 &31.02 &2.54 &28.48 \\
541 \caption{Running NAS benchmarks on 16 nodes }
544 \begin{tabular}{|*{7}{l|}}
546 Method & Execution & Energy & Energy & Performance & Distance \\
547 name & time/s & consumption/J & saving\% & degradation\% & \\
549 CG &31.74 &4373.90 &26.29 &9.57 &16.72 \\
551 MG &5.71 &1076.19 &32.49 &6.05 &26.44 \\
553 EP &20.11 &5638.49 &26.85 &0.56 &26.29 \\
555 LU &144.13 &42529.06 &28.80 &6.56 &22.24 \\
557 BT &97.29 &22813.86 &34.95 &5.80 &29.15 \\
559 SP &66.49 &20821.67 &22.49 &3.82 &18.67 \\
561 FT &37.01 &5505.60 &31.59 &6.48 &25.11 \\
564 \label{table:res_16n}
568 \caption{Running NAS benchmarks on 32 and 36 nodes }
571 \begin{tabular}{|*{7}{l|}}
573 Method & Execution & Energy & Energy & Performance & Distance \\
574 name & time/s & consumption/J & saving\% & degradation\% & \\
576 CG &32.35 &6704.21 &16.15 &5.30 &10.85 \\
578 MG &4.30 &1355.58 &28.93 &8.85 &20.08 \\
580 EP &9.96 &5519.68 &26.98 &0.02 &26.96 \\
582 LU &99.93 &67463.43 &23.60 &2.45 &21.15 \\
584 BT &48.61 &23796.97 &34.62 &5.83 &28.79 \\
586 SP &46.01 &27007.43 &22.72 &3.45 &19.27 \\
588 FT &28.06 &7142.69 &23.09 &2.90 &20.19 \\
591 \label{table:res_32n}
595 \caption{Running NAS benchmarks on 64 nodes }
598 \begin{tabular}{|*{7}{l|}}
600 Method & Execution & Energy & Energy & Performance & Distance \\
601 name & time/s & consumption/J & saving\% & degradation\% & \\
603 CG &46.65 &17521.83 &8.13 &1.68 &6.45 \\
605 MG &3.27 &1534.70 &29.27 &14.35 &14.92 \\
607 EP &5.05 &5471.1084 &27.12 &3.11 &24.01 \\
609 LU &73.92 &101339.16 &21.96 &3.67 &18.29 \\
611 BT &39.99 &27166.71 &32.02 &12.28 &19.74 \\
613 SP &52.00 &49099.28 &24.84 &0.03 &24.81 \\
615 FT &25.97 &10416.82 &20.15 &4.87 &15.28 \\
618 \label{table:res_64n}
623 \caption{Running NAS benchmarks on 128 and 144 nodes }
626 \begin{tabular}{|*{7}{l|}}
628 Method & Execution & Energy & Energy & Performance & Distance \\
629 name & time/s & consumption/J & saving\% & degradation\% & \\
631 CG &56.92 &41163.36 &4.00 &1.10 &2.90 \\
633 MG &3.55 &2843.33 &18.77 &10.38 &8.39 \\
635 EP &2.67 &5669.66 &27.09 &0.03 &27.06 \\
637 LU &51.23 &144471.90 &16.67 &2.36 &14.31 \\
639 BT &37.96 &44243.82 &23.18 &1.28 &21.90 \\
641 SP &64.53 &115409.71 &26.72 &0.05 &26.67 \\
643 FT &25.51 &18808.72 &12.85 &2.84 &10.01 \\
646 \label{table:res_128n}
649 The results of applying the proposed scaling algorithm to the NAS benchmarks is demonstrated in tables (\ref{table:res_4n}, \ref{table:res_8n}, \ref{table:res_16n}, \ref{table:res_32n}, \ref{table:res_64n} and \ref{table:res_128n}). These tables are show the experimental results for running the NAS benchmarks on different number of nodes. In general the energy saving percent is decreased when the number of the computing nodes is increased. Also the distance is decreased by the same direction of the energy saving. This because when we are run the iterative MPI programs on a big number of nodes the communications times is increased, so the static energy is increased linearly to these times. The tables also show that the performance degradation percent still approximately the same ratio or decreased in a very small present when the number of computing nodes is increased. This is gives a good prove that the proposed algorithm keeping the performance degradation as mush as possible is the same.
653 \subfloat[CG, MG, LU and FT benchmarks]{%
654 \includegraphics[width=.23185\textwidth]{fig/avg_eq}\label{fig:avg_eq}}%
656 \subfloat[BT and SP benchmarks]{%
657 \includegraphics[width=.23185\textwidth]{fig/avg_neq}\label{fig:avg_neq}}
659 \caption{The average of energy and performance for all NAS benchmarks running with difference number of nodes}
662 In the NAS benchmarks there are some programs executed on different number of
663 nodes. The benchmarks CG, MG, LU and FT executed on 2 to a power of (1, 2, 4, 8,
664 \dots{}) of nodes. The other benchmarks such as BT and SP executed on 2 to a
665 power of (1, 2, 4, 9, \dots{}) of nodes. We are take the average of energy
666 saving, performance degradation and distances for all results of NAS
667 benchmarks. The average of values of these three objectives are plotted to the number of
668 nodes as in plots (\ref{fig:avg_eq} and \ref{fig:avg_neq}). In CG, MG, LU, and
669 FT benchmarks the average of energy saving is decreased when the number of nodes
670 is increased because the communication times is increased as mentioned
671 before. Thus, the average of distances (our objective function) is decreased
672 linearly with energy saving while keeping the average of performance degradation approximately is
673 the same. In BT and SP benchmarks, the average of the energy saving is not decreased
674 significantly compare to other benchmarks when the number of nodes is
675 increased. Nevertheless, the average of performance degradation approximately
676 still the same ratio. This difference is depends on the characteristics of the
677 benchmarks such as the computation to communication ratio that has.
679 \subsection{The results for different power consumption scenarios}
681 The results of the previous section are obtained using a percentage of 80\% for
682 dynamic power and 20\% for static power of the total power consumption of a CPU. In this
683 section we are change these ratio by using two others power scenarios. Because is
684 interested to measure the ability of the proposed algorithm when these power ratios are changed.
685 In fact, we are used two different scenarios for dynamic and static power ratios in addition to the previous
686 scenario in section (\ref{sec.res}). Therefore, we have three different
687 scenarios for three different dynamic and static power ratios refer to these as:
688 70\%-20\%, 80\%-20\% and 90\%-10\% scenario respectively. The results of these scenarios
689 running the NAS benchmarks class C on 8 or 9 nodes are place in the tables
690 (\ref{table:res_s1} and \ref{table:res_s2}).
693 \caption{The results of 70\%-30\% powers scenario}
696 \begin{tabular}{|*{6}{l|}}
698 Method & Energy & Energy & Performance & Distance \\
699 name & consumption/J & saving\% & degradation\% & \\
701 CG &4144.21 &22.42 &7.72 &14.70 \\
703 MG &1133.23 &24.50 &5.34 &19.16 \\
705 EP &6170.30 &16.19 &0.02 &16.17 \\
707 LU &39477.28 &20.43 &0.07 &20.36 \\
709 BT &26169.55 &25.34 &6.62 &18.71 \\
711 SP &19620.09 &19.32 &3.66 &15.66 \\
713 FT &6094.07 &23.17 &0.36 &22.81 \\
722 \caption{The results of 90\%-10\% powers scenario}
725 \begin{tabular}{|*{6}{l|}}
727 Method & Energy & Energy & Performance & Distance \\
728 name & consumption/J & saving\% & degradation\% & \\
730 CG &2812.38 &36.36 &6.80 &29.56 \\
732 MG &825.427 &38.35 &6.41 &31.94 \\
734 EP &5281.62 &35.02 &2.68 &32.34 \\
736 LU &31611.28 &39.15 &3.51 &35.64 \\
738 BT &21296.46 &36.70 &6.60 &30.10 \\
740 SP &15183.42 &35.19 &11.76 &23.43 \\
742 FT &3856.54 &40.80 &5.67 &35.13 \\
751 \subfloat[Comparison the average of the results on 8 nodes]{%
752 \includegraphics[width=.22\textwidth]{fig/sen_comp}\label{fig:sen_comp}}%
754 \subfloat[Comparison the selected frequency scaling factors for 8 nodes]{%
755 \includegraphics[width=.24\textwidth]{fig/three_scenarios}\label{fig:scales_comp}}
757 \caption{The comparison of the three power scenarios}
760 To compare the results of these three powers scenarios, we are take the average of the performance degradation, the energy saving and the distances for all NAS benchmarks running on 8 or 9 nodes of class C, as in figure (\ref{fig:sen_comp}). Thus, according to the average of these results, the energy saving ratio is increased when using a higher percentage for dynamic power (e.g. 90\%-10\% scenario), due to increase in dynamic energy. While the average of energy saving is decreased in 70\%-30\% scenario. Because the static energy consumption is increase. Moreover, the average of distances is more related to energy saving changes. The average of the performance degradation is decreased when using a higher ratio for static power (e.g. 70\%-30\% scenario and 80\%-20\% scenario). The raison behind these relations, that the proposed algorithm optimize both energy consumption and performance in the same time. Therefore, when using a higher ratio for dynamic power the algorithm selecting bigger frequency scaling factors values, more energy saving versus more performance degradation, for example see the figure (\ref{fig:scales_comp}). The inverse happen when using a higher ratio for static power, the algorithm proportionally selects a smaller scaling values, less energy saving versus less performance degradation. This is because the
761 algorithm is optimizes the static energy consumption that is always related to the execution time.
763 \subsection{The verifications of the proposed method}
765 The precision of the proposed algorithm mainly depends on the execution time prediction model EQ(\ref{eq:perf}) and the energy model EQ(\ref{eq:energy}). The energy model is significantly depends on the execution time model, that the static energy is related linearly. So, our work is depends mainly on execution time model. To verifying thid model, we are compare the predicted execution time with the real execution time (Simgrid time) values that gathered offline from the NAS benchmarks class B executed on 8 or 9 nodes. The execution time model can predicts the real execution time by maximum normalized error equal to 0.03 for all the NAS benchmarks. The second verification that we are made is for the proposed scaling algorithm to prove its ability to selects the best vector of the frequency scaling factors. Therefore, we are expand the algorithm to test at each iteration the frequency scaling factor of the slowest node with the all available scaling factors of the other nodes, all possible solutions. This version of the algorithm is applied to different NAS benchmarks classes with different number of nodes. The results from the expanded algorithms and the proposed algorithm are identical. While the proposed algorithm is runs by 10 times faster on average compare to the expanded algorithm.
771 \section*{Acknowledgment}
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