\maketitle
+
+\begin{abstract}
+\textcolor{blue}{
+ In recent years, green computing topic has being became an important topic in
+ the domain of the research. The increase in computing power of the computing
+ platforms is increased the energy consumption and the carbon dioxide emissions.
+ Many techniques have being used to minimize the cost of the energy consumption
+ and reduce environmental pollution. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS)
+ is one of these techniques. It used to reduce the power consumption of the CPU
+ while computing by lowering its frequency. Moreover, lowering the frequency of
+ a CPU may increase the execution time of an application running on that
+ processor. Therefore, the frequency that gives the best trade-off between
+ the energy consumption and the performance of an application must be selected.
+ In this paper, a new online frequency selecting algorithm for heterogeneous
+ grid (heterogeneous CPUs) is presented. It selects the frequencies and tries to give the best
+ trade-off between energy saving and performance degradation, for each node
+ computing the message passing iterative application. The algorithm has a small
+ overhead and works without training or profiling. It uses a new energy model
+ for message passing iterative applications running on a heterogeneous
+ grid. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on real testbed, grid'5000 platform, while
+ running the NAS parallel benchmarks. The experiments show that it reduces the
+ energy consumption on average up to \np[\%]{30} while declines the performance
+ on average by \np[\%]{3}. Finally, the algorithm is
+ compared to an existing method, the comparison results show that it outperforms the
+ latter in term of energy and performance trade-off.}
+\end{abstract}
+
+
\section{Introduction}
\label{sec.intro}
\textcolor{blue}{
\cite{TOP500_Supercomputers_Sites}. However, it was also the most power hungry
platform with its over 3 million cores consuming around 17.8 megawatts.
Moreover, according to the U.S. annual energy outlook 2015
-\cite{U.S_Annual.Energy.Outlook.2014}, the price of energy for 1 megawatt-hour
+\cite{U.S_Annual.Energy.Outlook.2015}, the price of energy for 1 megawatt-hour
was approximately equal to \$70. Therefore, the price of the energy consumed by
the Tianhe-2 platform is approximately more than \$10 million each year. The
computing platforms must be more energy efficient and offer the highest number
50.32 kilowatts.
}
+\textcolor{blue}{
Besides platform improvements, there are many software and hardware techniques
to lower the energy consumption of these platforms, such as scheduling, DVFS,
\dots{} DVFS is a widely used process to reduce the energy consumption of a
the energy consumption of message passing iterative applications running over
homogeneous and heterogeneous clusters respectively.
The results of the experiments show significant energy
-consumption reductions. In this paper, a new frequency selecting algorithm
-adapted for heterogeneous platform is presented. It selects the vector of
+consumption reductions. All the experimental results were conducted over
+Simgrid simulator \cite{SimGrid}, which offers easy tools to create a homogeneous and heterogeneous platforms. In this paper, a new frequencies selecting algorithm
+adapted for heterogeneous grid platform is presented and executed over real testbed,
+the grid'5000 platform \cite{grid5000}. It selects the vector of
frequencies, for a heterogeneous grid platform running a message passing iterative
application, that simultaneously tries to offer the maximum energy reduction and
minimum performance degradation ratio. The algorithm has a very small overhead,
-works online and does not need any training or profiling.
+works online and does not need any training or profiling.}
\textcolor{blue}{
This paper is organized as follows: Section~\ref{sec.relwork} presents some
characteristics of each processor (computation power, range of frequencies,
dynamic and static powers) and the task executed (computation/communication
ratio). The aim being to reduce the overall energy consumption and to avoid
-increasing significantly the execution time. In our previous
-work~\cite{Our_first_paper,pdsec2015}, we proposed a method that selects the optimal
-frequency scaling factor for a homogeneous and heterogeneous clusters executing a message passing
+increasing significantly the execution time.
+\textcolor{blue}{ In our previous
+works~\cite{Our_first_paper} and \cite{pdsec2015}, we proposed a methods that select the optimal
+frequency scaling factors for a homogeneous and a heterogeneous clusters respectively.
+Both of the two methods executing a message passing
iterative synchronous application while giving the best trade-off between the
energy consumption and the performance for such applications. In this work we
-are interested in heterogeneous grid as described above. Due to the
+are interested in heterogeneous grid as described above.}
+Due to the
heterogeneity of the processors, a vector of scaling factors should be selected
and it must give the best trade-off between energy consumption and performance.
which on average is equal to 7\%.
\textcolor{blue}{
-The performance degradation percentages over one site multi-cores is lower because the computations to communications ratio is decreased. Therefore, selecting small
+The performance degradation percentages over one site multi-cores is lower because the computations to communications ratio is decreased. Therefore, selecting bigger
frequencies by the scaling algorithm are proportional to this ratio, and thus the execution time do not increase significantly.}
The aim of this section is to evaluate the scaling algorithm while assuming different values of static powers.
In addition to the previously used percentage of static power, two new static power ratios, 10\% and 30\% of the measured dynamic power of the core, are used in this section.
The experiments have been executed with these two new static power scenarios over the one site one core per node scenario.
-In these experiments, the class D of the NAS parallel benchmarks are executed over Nancy's site. 16 computing nodes from the three clusters, Graphite, Graphene and Griffon, where used in this experiment.
+In these experiments, the class D of the NAS parallel benchmarks are executed over Nancy's site. 16 computing nodes from the three clusters, Graphite, Graphene and Griffon, where used in this experiment.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\label{fig:fre-pow}
\end{figure}
-
The energy saving percentages of the NAS benchmarks with the three static power scenarios are presented
in figure \ref{fig:eng_sen}. This figure shows that the 10\% of static power scenario
gives the biggest energy saving percentages in comparison to the 20\% and 30\% static power
is decreased for the other two scenarios because the scaling algorithm had selected different frequencies according to the static power values.
In the EP benchmark, the energy saving, performance degradation and tradeoff
-distance percentages for the these static power scenarios are not significantly different because there is no communication in this benchmark. Therefore, the static power is only consumed during computation and the proposed scaling algorithm selects similar frequencies for the three scenarios. On the other hand, for the rest of the benchmarks, the scaling algorithm selects the values of the frequencies according to the communication times of each benchmark because the static energy consumption increases proportionally to the communication times.
+distance percentages for the these static power scenarios are not significantly different because there is no communication in this benchmark. Therefore, the static power is only consumed during computation and the proposed scaling algorithm selects similar frequencies for the three scenarios. On the other hand, for the rest of the benchmarks, the scaling algorithm selects the values of the frequencies according to the communication times of each benchmark because the static energy consumption increases proportionally to the communication times.
-\subsection{The comparison between the proposed frequencies selecting algorithm and the energy and delay product algorithm}
+\subsection{The comparison of the proposed frequencies selecting algorithm }
\label{sec.compare_EDP}
Finding the frequencies that gives the best tradeoff between the energy consumption and the performance for a parallel
Both algorithms were applied to the class D of the NAS benchmarks over 16 nodes.
The participating computing nodes are distributed according to the two scenarios described in section \ref{sec.res}.
The experimental results, the energy saving, performance degradation and tradeoff distance percentages, are
-presented in the figures \ref{fig:edp-eng}, \ref{fig:edp-perf} and \ref{fig:edp-dist} respectively.
+presented in the figures \ref{fig:edp-eng}, \ref{fig:edp-perf} and \ref{fig:edp-dist} respectively.
+
+
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/edp_eng}
\caption{Comparing of the tradeoff distance for the proposed method with EDP method}
\label{fig:edp-dist}
\end{figure}
+
+
+
\textcolor{blue}{As shown form these figures, the proposed frequencies selection algorithm, Maxdist, outperform the EDP algorithm in term of energy and performance for all of the benchmarks executed over the two scenarios.
Generally, the proposed algorithm gives better results for all benchmarks because it is
optimized the distance between the energy saving and the performance degradation in the same time.
