X-Git-Url: https://bilbo.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/and/gitweb/mpi-energy2.git/blobdiff_plain/3d5f3e882a122029ae42138304769d94b5f844e1..71a2ec18276dbbb8ee0dc07e9a390d558eda81d7:/mpi-energy2-extension/Heter_paper.tex diff --git a/mpi-energy2-extension/Heter_paper.tex b/mpi-energy2-extension/Heter_paper.tex index 4d36639..b6839ce 100644 --- a/mpi-energy2-extension/Heter_paper.tex +++ b/mpi-energy2-extension/Heter_paper.tex @@ -1,4 +1,41 @@ -\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} +\documentclass[review]{elsarticle} + +\usepackage{lineno,hyperref} +\modulolinenumbers[5] + +\journal{Journal of Computational Science} + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% Elsevier bibliography styles +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% To change the style, put a % in front of the second line of the current style and +%% remove the % from the second line of the style you would like to use. +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +%% Numbered +%\bibliographystyle{model1-num-names} + +%% Numbered without titles +%\bibliographystyle{model1a-num-names} + +%% Harvard +%\bibliographystyle{model2-names.bst}\biboptions{authoryear} + +%% Vancouver numbered +%\usepackage{numcompress}\bibliographystyle{model3-num-names} + +%% Vancouver name/year +%\usepackage{numcompress}\bibliographystyle{model4-names}\biboptions{authoryear} + +%% APA style +%\bibliographystyle{model5-names}\biboptions{authoryear} + +%% AMA style +%\usepackage{numcompress}\bibliographystyle{model6-num-names} + +%% `Elsevier LaTeX' style +\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-num} +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} @@ -6,6 +43,7 @@ \usepackage{algpseudocode} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{algorithm} +\usepackage{setspace} \usepackage{subfig} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{url} @@ -60,35 +98,38 @@ \newcommand{\Tnew}{\Xsub{T}{New}} \newcommand{\Told}{\Xsub{T}{Old}} + + + \begin{document} -\title{Energy Consumption Reduction with DVFS for \\ - Message Passing Iterative Applications on \\ - Heterogeneous Architectures} - -\author{% - \IEEEauthorblockN{% - Jean-Claude Charr, - Raphaël Couturier, - Ahmed Fanfakh and - Arnaud Giersch - } - \IEEEauthorblockA{% - FEMTO-ST Institute, University of Franche-Comté\\ +\begin{frontmatter} + + + +\title{Energy Consumption Reduction with DVFS for Message \\ + Passing Iterative Applications on \\ + Grid Architecture} + + + + +\author{Ahmed Fanfakh, + Jean-Claude Charr, + Raphaël Couturier, + and Arnaud Giersch} + +\address{FEMTO-ST Institute, University of Franche-Comté\\ IUT de Belfort-Montbéliard, 19 avenue du Maréchal Juin, BP 527, 90016 Belfort cedex, France\\ % Telephone: \mbox{+33 3 84 58 77 86}, % Raphaël % Fax: \mbox{+33 3 84 58 77 81}\\ % Dept Info - Email: \email{{jean-claude.charr,raphael.couturier,ahmed.fanfakh_badri_muslim,arnaud.giersch}@univ-fcomte.fr} + Email: \email{{ahmed.fanfakh_badri_muslim,jean-claude.charr,raphael.couturier,arnaud.giersch}@univ-fcomte.fr} } - } - -\maketitle - \begin{abstract} - In recent years, green computing topic has become an important topic + In recent years, green computing has become an important topic in the supercomputing research domain. However, the computing platforms are still consuming more and more energy due to the increasing number of nodes composing @@ -106,18 +147,32 @@ scaling (DVFS) is one of them. It can be used to reduce the power consumption of 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 grid. - The proposed algorithm is evaluated on a real grid , the grid'5000 platform, while + The proposed algorithm is evaluated on a real grid, the grid'5000 platform, while running the NAS parallel benchmarks. The experiments show that it reduces the energy consumption on average by \np[\%]{30} while the performance is only degraded - on average by \np[\%]{3}. Finally, the algorithm is + on average by \np[\%]{3.2}. Finally, the algorithm is compared to an existing method. The comparison results show that it outperforms the latter in terms of energy consumption reduction and performance. \end{abstract} +\begin{keyword} + +Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling \sep Grid computing\sep Green computing and frequency scaling online algorithm. + +%% keywords here, in the form: keyword \sep keyword + +%% MSC codes here, in the form: \MSC code \sep code +%% or \MSC[2008] code \sep code (2000 is the default) + +\end{keyword} + +\end{frontmatter} + + + \section{Introduction} \label{sec.intro} -\textcolor{red}{did you verify that these informations are still accurate before changing the years to 2015?} The need for more computing power is continually increasing. To partially satisfy this need, most supercomputers constructors just put more computing nodes in their platform. The resulting platforms may achieve higher floating @@ -169,11 +224,9 @@ consumption while minimizing the degradation of the program's performance. Section~\ref{sec.optim} details the proposed frequencies selecting algorithm. Section~\ref{sec.expe} presents the results of applying the algorithm on the NAS parallel benchmarks and executing them on the grid'5000 testbed. -%It shows the results of running different scenarios using multi-cores and one core per node and comparing them. -It also evaluates the algorithm over three different power scenarios. Moreover, it shows the +It also evaluates the algorithm over multi-cores per node architectures and over three different power scenarios. Moreover, it shows the comparison results between the proposed method and an existing method. Finally, in Section~\ref{sec.concl} the paper ends with a summary and some future works. - \section{Related works} \label{sec.relwork} @@ -450,6 +503,7 @@ static energies for $M$ processors in $N$ clusters. It is computed as follows: +\mathop{\min_{j=1,\dots M}} (\Tcm[hj]) )) \end{multline} + Reducing the frequencies of the processors according to the vector of scaling factors $(S_{11}, S_{12},\dots, S_{NM})$ may degrade the performance of the application and thus, increase the static energy because the execution time is @@ -540,13 +594,12 @@ equation, as follows: \Pnorm = \frac{\Told}{\Tnew} \end{equation} -\begin{figure}[!t] +\begin{figure} \centering \subfloat[Homogeneous cluster]{% - \includegraphics[width=.33\textwidth]{fig/homo}\label{fig:r1}}% - + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/homo}\label{fig:r1}} \hspace{2cm}% \subfloat[Heterogeneous grid]{% - \includegraphics[width=.33\textwidth]{fig/heter}\label{fig:r2}} + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/heter}\label{fig:r2}} \label{fig:rel} \caption{The energy and performance relation} \end{figure} @@ -576,11 +629,13 @@ in~\cite{Zhuo_Energy.efficient.Dynamic.Task.Scheduling,Rauber_Analytical.Modelin \label{sec.optim} \begin{algorithm} +\setstretch{1} \begin{algorithmic}[1] % \footnotesize + \Require ~ \begin{description} - \item [{$N$}] number of clusters in the grid. + \item [{$N$}] number of clusters in the grid. \item [{$M$}] number of nodes in each cluster. \item[{$\Tcp[ij]$}] array of all computation times for all nodes during one iteration and with the highest frequency. \item[{$\Tcm[ij]$}] array of all communication times for all nodes during one iteration and with the highest frequency. @@ -608,8 +663,7 @@ in~\cite{Zhuo_Energy.efficient.Dynamic.Task.Scheduling,Rauber_Analytical.Modelin \EndIf \State $\Tnew \gets $ computed as in equations (\ref{eq:perf}). \State $\Ereduced \gets $ computed as in equations (\ref{eq:energy}). - \State $\Pnorm \gets \frac{\Told}{\Tnew}$ - \State $\Enorm\gets \frac{\Ereduced}{\Eoriginal}$ + \State $\Pnorm \gets \frac{\Told}{\Tnew}$, $\Enorm\gets \frac{\Ereduced}{\Eoriginal}$ \If{$(\Pnorm - \Enorm > \Dist)$} \State $\Sopt[ij] \gets S_{ij},~i=1,\dots,N,~j=1,\dots,M_i. $ \State $\Dist \gets \Pnorm - \Enorm$ @@ -642,7 +696,8 @@ in~\cite{Zhuo_Energy.efficient.Dynamic.Task.Scheduling,Rauber_Analytical.Modelin \end{algorithm} -In this section, the scaling factors selection algorithm for grids, algorithm~\ref{HSA}, is presented. It selects the vector of the frequency +In this section, the scaling factors selection algorithm for grids, algorithm~\ref{HSA}, +is presented. It selects the vector of the frequency scaling factors 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 grid. It works @@ -658,7 +713,7 @@ scaling algorithm is called in the iterative MPI program. \begin{figure}[!t] \centering - \includegraphics[scale=0.45]{fig/init_freq} + \includegraphics[scale=0.6]{fig/init_freq} \caption{Selecting the initial frequencies} \label{fig:st_freq} \end{figure} @@ -780,14 +835,6 @@ selected clusters and are presented in table \ref{table:grid5000}. \caption{The selected two sites of grid'5000} \label{fig:grid5000} \end{figure} - -The energy model and the scaling factors selection algorithm were applied to the NAS parallel benchmarks v3.3 \cite{NAS.Parallel.Benchmarks} and evaluated over grid'5000. -The benchmark suite contains seven applications: CG, MG, EP, LU, BT, SP and FT. These applications have different computations and communications ratios and strategies which make them good testbed applications to evaluate the proposed algorithm and energy model. -The benchmarks have seven different classes, S, W, A, B, C, D and E, that represent the size of the problem that the method solves. In this work, the class D was used for all benchmarks in all the experiments presented in the next sections. - - - - \begin{figure}[!t] \centering \includegraphics[scale=0.6]{fig/power_consumption.pdf} @@ -796,6 +843,10 @@ The benchmarks have seven different classes, S, W, A, B, C, D and E, that repres \end{figure} +The energy model and the scaling factors selection algorithm were applied to the NAS parallel benchmarks v3.3 \cite{NAS.Parallel.Benchmarks} and evaluated over grid'5000. +The benchmark suite contains seven applications: CG, MG, EP, LU, BT, SP and FT. These applications have different computations and communications ratios and strategies which make them good testbed applications to evaluate the proposed algorithm and energy model. +The benchmarks have seven different classes, S, W, A, B, C, D and E, that represent the size of the problem that the method solves. In this work, the class D was used for all benchmarks in all the experiments presented in the next sections. + \begin{table}[!t] @@ -876,29 +927,16 @@ Table \ref{tab:sc} shows the number of nodes used from each cluster for each sce & Griffon & Nancy & 6 \\ \hline \multirow{3}{*}{One site / 32 nodes} & Graphite & Nancy & 4 \\ \cline{2-4} - & Graphene & Nancy & 12 \\ \cline{2-4} - & Griffon & Nancy & 12 \\ + & Graphene & Nancy & 14 \\ \cline{2-4} + & Griffon & Nancy & 14 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \label{tab:sc} \end{table} -\begin{figure} - \centering - \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/eng_con_scenarios.eps} - \caption{The energy consumption by the nodes wile executing the NAS benchmarks over different scenarios } - \label{fig:eng_sen} -\end{figure} -\begin{figure} - \centering - \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/time_scenarios.eps} - \caption{The execution times of the NAS benchmarks over different scenarios } - \label{fig:time_sen} -\end{figure} - The NAS parallel benchmarks are executed over these two platforms with different number of nodes, as in Table \ref{tab:sc}. The overall energy consumption of all the benchmarks solving the class D instance and @@ -922,29 +960,8 @@ scenario. Moreover, most of the benchmarks running over the one site scenario th However, the execution times and the energy consumptions of EP and MG benchmarks, which have no or small communications, are not significantly affected in both scenarios. Even when the number of nodes is doubled. On the other hand, the communications of the rest of the benchmarks increases when using long distance communications between two sites or increasing the number of computing nodes. -\begin{figure} - \centering - \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/eng_s.eps} - \caption{The energy reduction while executing the NAS benchmarks over different scenarios } - \label{fig:eng_s} -\end{figure} -\begin{figure} - \centering - \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/per_d.eps} - \caption{The performance degradation of the NAS benchmarks over different scenarios } - \label{fig:per_d} -\end{figure} - - -\begin{figure} - \centering - \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/dist.eps} - \caption{The tradeoff distance between the energy reduction and the performance of the NAS benchmarks over different scenarios } - \label{fig:dist} -\end{figure} - The energy saving percentage is computed as the ratio between the reduced energy consumption, equation (\ref{eq:energy}), and the original energy consumption, equation (\ref{eq:eorginal}), for all benchmarks as in figure \ref{fig:eng_s}. @@ -957,6 +974,18 @@ is exponentially related to the CPU's frequency value. On the other side, the in increase the communication times and thus produces less energy saving depending on the benchmarks being executed. The results of the benchmarks CG, MG, BT and FT show more energy saving percentage in one site scenario when executed over 16 nodes comparing to 32 nodes. While, LU and SP consume more energy with 16 nodes than 32 in one site because their computations to communications ratio is not affected by the increase of the number of local communications. +\begin{figure} + \centering + \subfloat[The energy consumption by the nodes wile executing the NAS benchmarks over different scenarios + ]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/eng_con_scenarios.eps}\label{fig:eng_sen}} \hspace{1cm}% + \subfloat[The execution times of the NAS benchmarks over different scenarios]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/time_scenarios.eps}\label{fig:time_sen}} + \label{fig:exp-time-energy} + \caption{The energy consumption and execution time of NAS Benchmarks over different scenarios} +\end{figure} + + The energy saving percentage is reduced for all the benchmarks because of the long distance communications in the two sites @@ -972,12 +1001,23 @@ algorithm select smaller frequencies for the powerful nodes which produces less energy consumption and thus more energy saving. The best energy saving percentage was obtained in the one site scenario with 16 nodes, the energy consumption was on average reduced up to 30\%. - +\begin{figure} + \centering + \subfloat[The energy reduction while executing the NAS benchmarks over different scenarios ]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/eng_s.eps}\label{fig:eng_s}} \hspace{2cm}% + \subfloat[The performance degradation of the NAS benchmarks over different scenarios]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/per_d.eps}\label{fig:per_d}}\hspace{2cm}% + \subfloat[The tradeoff distance between the energy reduction and the performance of the NAS benchmarks + over different scenarios]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/dist.eps}\label{fig:dist}} + \label{fig:exp-res} + \caption{The experimental results of different scenarios} +\end{figure} Figure \ref{fig:per_d} presents the performance degradation percentages for all benchmarks over the two scenarios. The performance degradation percentage for the benchmarks running on two sites with -16 or 32 nodes is on average equal to 8\% or 4\% respectively. +16 or 32 nodes is on average equal to 8.3\% or 4.7\% respectively. For this scenario, the proposed scaling algorithm selects smaller frequencies for the executions with 32 nodes without significantly degrading their performance because the communication times are higher with 32 nodes which results in smaller computations to communications ratio. On the other hand, the performance degradation percentage for the benchmarks running on one site with -16 or 32 nodes is on average equal to 3\% or 10\% respectively. In opposition to the two sites scenario, when the number of computing nodes is increased in the one site scenario, the performance degradation percentage is increased. Therefore, doubling the number of computing +16 or 32 nodes is on average equal to 3.2\% or 10.6\% respectively. In opposition to the two sites scenario, when the number of computing nodes is increased in the one site scenario, the performance degradation percentage is increased. Therefore, doubling the number of computing nodes when the communications occur in high speed network does not decrease the computations to communication ratio. @@ -989,150 +1029,103 @@ when the communication times increase and vice versa. Figure \ref{fig:dist} presents the distance percentage between the energy saving and the performance degradation for each benchmark over both scenarios. The tradeoff distance percentage can be computed as in equation \ref{eq:max}. The one site scenario with 16 nodes gives the best energy and performance -tradeoff, on average it is equal to 26\%. The one site scenario using both 16 and 32 nodes had better energy and performance +tradeoff, on average it is equal to 26.8\%. The one site scenario using both 16 and 32 nodes had better energy and performance tradeoff comparing to the two sites scenario because the former has high speed local communications which increase the computations to communications ratio and the latter uses long distance communications which decrease this ratio. - Finally, the best energy and performance tradeoff depends on all of the following: 1) the computations to communications ratio when there are communications and slack times, 2) the heterogeneity of the computing powers of the nodes and 3) the heterogeneity of the consumed static and dynamic powers of the nodes. -%\subsection{The experimental results of multi-cores clusters} -%\label{sec.res-mc} -%The clusters of grid'5000 have different number of cores embedded in their nodes -%as shown in Table \ref{table:grid5000}. In -%this section, the proposed scaling algorithm is evaluated over the grid'5000 grid while using multi-core nodes -%selected according to the two platform scenarios described in the section \ref{sec.res}. -%The two platform scenarios, the two sites and one site scenarios, use 32 -%cores from multi-cores nodes instead of 32 distinct nodes. For example if -%the participating number of cores from a certain cluster is equal to 12, -%in the multi-core scenario the selected nodes is equal to 3 nodes while using -%4 cores from each node. The platforms with one -%core per node and multi-cores nodes are shown in Table \ref{table:sen-mc}. -%The energy consumptions and execution times of running the NAS parallel -%benchmarks, class D, over these four different scenarios are presented -%in the figures \ref{fig:eng-cons-mc} and \ref{fig:time-mc} respectively. -% -%The execution times for most of the NAS benchmarks are higher over the one site multi-cores per node scenario -% than the execution time of those running over one site single core per node scenario. Indeed, -% the communication times are higher in the one site multi-cores scenario than in the latter scenario because all the cores of a node share the same node network link which can be saturated when running communication bound applications and. Moreover, the cores of a node share the memory bus which can be also saturated and become a bottleneck. -% -% -%The experiments showed that for most of the NAS benchmarks and between the four scenarios, -%the one site one core scenario gives the best execution times because the communication times are the lowest. -%Indeed, in this scenario each core has a dedicated network link and memory bus and all the communications are local. -%Moreover, the energy consumptions of the NAS benchmarks are lower over the -%one site one core scenario than over the one site multi-cores scenario because -%the first scenario had less execution time than the latter which results in less static energy being consumed. -% -%The computations to communications ratios of the NAS benchmarks are higher over -%the one site one core scenario when compared to the ratios of the other scenarios. -%More energy reduction was achieved when this ratio is increased because the proposed scaling algorithm selects smaller frequencies that decrease the dynamic power consumption. -% -% \textcolor{blue}{ Whereas, the energy consumption in the two sites one core scenario is higher than the energy consumption of the two sites multi-core scenario. This is according to the increase in the execution time of the two sites one core scenario. } -% -% -%These experiments also showed that the energy -%consumption and the execution times of the EP and MG benchmarks do not change significantly over these four -%scenarios because there are no or small communications, -%which could increase or decrease the static power consumptions. Contrary to EP and MG, the energy consumptions -%and the execution times of the rest of the benchmarks vary according to the communication times that are different from one scenario to the other. -% -% -%The energy saving percentages of all NAS benchmarks running over these four scenarios are presented in the figure \ref{fig:eng-s-mc}. It shows that the energy saving percentages over the two sites multi-cores scenario -%and over the two sites one core scenario are on average equal to 22\% and 18\% -%respectively. The energy saving percentages are higher in the former scenario because its computations to communications ratio is higher than the ratio of the latter scenario as mentioned previously. -% -%In contrast, in the one site one -%core and one site multi-cores scenarios the energy saving percentages -%are approximately equivalent, on average they are up to 25\%. In both scenarios there -%are a small difference in the computations to communications ratios, which leads -%the proposed scaling algorithm to select similar frequencies for both scenarios. -% -%The performance degradation percentages of the NAS benchmarks are presented in -%figure \ref{fig:per-d-mc}. It shows that the performance degradation percentages for the NAS benchmarks are higher over the two sites -%multi-cores scenario than over the two sites one core scenario, equal on average to 7\% and 4\% respectively. -%Moreover, using the two sites multi-cores scenario increased -%the computations to communications ratio, which may increase -%the overall execution time when the proposed scaling algorithm is applied and the frequencies scaled down. -% -% -%When the benchmarks are executed over the one -%site one core scenario, their performance degradation percentages are equal on average -%to 10\% and are higher than those executed over the one site multi-cores scenario, -%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 bigger -%frequencies by the scaling algorithm are proportional to this ratio, and thus the execution time do not increase significantly.} -% -% -%The tradeoff distance percentages of the NAS -%benchmarks over all scenarios are presented in the figure \ref{fig:dist-mc}. -%These tradeoff distance percentages are used to verify which scenario is the best in terms of energy reduction and performance. The figure shows that using muti-cores in both of the one site and two sites scenarios gives bigger tradeoff distance percentages, on overage equal to 17.6\% and 15.3\% respectively, than using one core per node in both of one site and two sites scenarios, on average equal to 14.7\% and 13.3\% respectively. -% -%\begin{table}[] -%\centering -%\caption{The multicores scenarios} -% -%\begin{tabular}{|*{4}{c|}} -%\hline -%Scenario name & Cluster name & \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}c@{}}No. of nodes\\ in each cluster\end{tabular} & -% \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}c@{}}No. of cores\\ for each node\end{tabular} \\ \hline -%\multirow{3}{*}{Two sites/ one core} & Taurus & 10 & 1 \\ \cline{2-4} -% & Graphene & 10 & 1 \\ \cline{2-4} -% & Griffon & 12 & 1 \\ \hline -%\multirow{3}{*}{Two sites/ multicores} & Taurus & 3 & 3 or 4 \\ \cline{2-4} -% & Graphene & 3 & 3 or 4 \\ \cline{2-4} -% & Griffon & 3 & 4 \\ \hline -%\multirow{3}{*}{One site/ one core} & Graphite & 4 & 1 \\ \cline{2-4} -% & Graphene & 12 & 1 \\ \cline{2-4} -% & Griffon & 12 & 1 \\ \hline -%\multirow{3}{*}{One site/ multicores} & Graphite & 3 & 3 or 4 \\ \cline{2-4} -% & Graphene & 3 & 3 or 4 \\ \cline{2-4} -% & Griffon & 3 & 4 \\ \hline -%\end{tabular} -%\label{table:sen-mc} -%\end{table} -% -%\begin{figure} -% \centering -% \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/eng_con.eps} -% \caption{Comparing the energy consumptions of running NAS benchmarks over one core and multicores scenarios } -% \label{fig:eng-cons-mc} -%\end{figure} -% -% -% \begin{figure} -% \centering -% \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/time.eps} -% \caption{Comparing the execution times of running NAS benchmarks over one core and multicores scenarios } -% \label{fig:time-mc} -%\end{figure} -% -% \begin{figure} -% \centering -% \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/eng_s_mc.eps} -% \caption{The energy saving of running NAS benchmarks over one core and multicores scenarios } -% \label{fig:eng-s-mc} -%\end{figure} -% -%\begin{figure} -% \centering -% \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/per_d_mc.eps} -% \caption{The performance degradation of running NAS benchmarks over one core and multicores scenarios } -% \label{fig:per-d-mc} -%\end{figure} -% -%\begin{figure} -% \centering -% \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/dist_mc.eps} -% \caption{The tradeoff distance of running NAS benchmarks over one core and multicores scenarios } -% \label{fig:dist-mc} -%\end{figure} +\subsection{The experimental results over multi-cores clusters} +\label{sec.res-mc} + +The clusters of grid'5000 have different number of cores embedded in their nodes +as shown in Table \ref{table:grid5000}. In +this section, the proposed scaling algorithm is evaluated over the grid'5000 platform while using multi-cores nodes selected according to the one site scenario described in the section \ref{sec.res}. +The one site scenario uses 32 cores from multi-cores nodes instead of 32 distinct nodes. For example if +the participating number of cores from a certain cluster is equal to 14, +in the multi-core scenario the selected nodes is equal to 4 nodes while using +3 or 4 cores from each node. The platforms with one +core per node and multi-cores nodes are shown in Table \ref{table:sen-mc}. +The energy consumptions and execution times of running the class D of the NAS parallel +benchmarks over these four different scenarios are presented +in the figures \ref{fig:eng-cons-mc} and \ref{fig:time-mc} respectively. + +\begin{table}[] +\centering +\caption{The multicores scenarios} +\begin{tabular}{|*{4}{c|}} +\hline +Scenario name & Cluster name & \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}c@{}}No. of nodes\\ in each cluster\end{tabular} & + \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}c@{}}No. of cores\\ for each node\end{tabular} \\ \hline +\multirow{3}{*}{One core per node} & Graphite & 4 & 1 \\ \cline{2-4} + & Graphene & 14 & 1 \\ \cline{2-4} + & Griffon & 14 & 1 \\ \hline +\multirow{3}{*}{Multi-cores per node} & Graphite & 1 & 4 \\ \cline{2-4} + & Graphene & 4 & 3 or 4 \\ \cline{2-4} + & Griffon & 4 & 3 or 4 \\ \hline +\end{tabular} +\label{table:sen-mc} +\end{table} + + +\begin{figure} + \centering + \subfloat[Comparing the execution times of running NAS benchmarks over one core and multicores scenarios]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/time.eps}\label{fig:time-mc}} \hspace{1cm}% + \subfloat[Comparing the energy consumptions of running NAS benchmarks over one core and multi-cores scenarios]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/eng_con.eps}\label{fig:eng-cons-mc}} + \label{fig:eng-cons} + \caption{The energy consumptions and execution times of NAS benchmarks over one core and multi-cores per node architectures} +\end{figure} + + + +The execution times for most of the NAS benchmarks are higher over the multi-cores per node scenario +than over single core per node scenario. Indeed, + the communication times are higher in the one site multi-cores scenario than in the latter scenario because all the cores of a node share the same node network link which can be saturated when running communication bound applications. Moreover, the cores of a node share the memory bus which can be also saturated and become a bottleneck. +Moreover, the energy consumptions of the NAS benchmarks are lower over the + one core scenario than over the multi-cores scenario because +the first scenario had less execution time than the latter which results in less static energy being consumed. +The computations to communications ratios of the NAS benchmarks are higher over +the one site one core scenario when compared to the ratio of the multi-cores scenario. +More energy reduction can be gained when this ratio is big because it pushes the proposed scaling algorithm to select smaller frequencies that decrease the dynamic power consumption. These experiments also showed that the energy +consumption and the execution times of the EP and MG benchmarks do not change significantly over these two +scenarios because there are no or small communications. Contrary to EP and MG, the energy consumptions and the execution times of the rest of the benchmarks vary according to the communication times that are different from one scenario to the other. + + +The energy saving percentages of all NAS benchmarks running over these two scenarios are presented in the figure \ref{fig:eng-s-mc}. +The figure shows that the energy saving percentages in the one +core and the multi-cores scenarios +are approximately equivalent, on average they are equal to 25.9\% and 25.1\% respectively. +The energy consumption is reduced at the same rate in the two scenarios when compared to the energy consumption of the executions without DVFS. + + +The performance degradation percentages of the NAS benchmarks are presented in +figure \ref{fig:per-d-mc}. It shows that the performance degradation percentages is higher for the NAS benchmarks over the one core per node scenario (on average equal to 10.6\%) than over the multi-cores scenario (on average equal to 7.5\%). The performance degradation percentages over the multi-cores scenario is lower because the computations to communications ratio is smaller than the ratio of the other scenario. + +The tradeoff distance percentages of the NAS benchmarks over the two scenarios are presented +in the figure \ref{fig:dist-mc}. These tradeoff distance between energy consumption reduction and performance are used to verify which scenario is the best in both terms at the same time. The figure shows that the tradeoff distance percentages are on average bigger over the multi-cores scenario (17.6\%) than over the one core per node scenario (15.3\%). + + + +\begin{figure} + \centering + \subfloat[The energy saving of running NAS benchmarks over one core and multicores scenarios]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/eng_s_mc.eps}\label{fig:eng-s-mc}} \hspace{2cm}% + \subfloat[The performance degradation of running NAS benchmarks over one core and multicores scenarios + ]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/per_d_mc.eps}\label{fig:per-d-mc}}\hspace{2cm}% + \subfloat[The tradeoff distance of running NAS benchmarks over one core and multicores scenarios]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/dist_mc.eps}\label{fig:dist-mc}} + \label{fig:exp-res} + \caption{The experimental results of one core and multi-cores scenarios} +\end{figure} + + \subsection{Experiments with different static and dynamic powers consumption scenarios} \label{sec.pow_sen} @@ -1144,31 +1137,25 @@ In addition to the previously used percentage of static power, two new static p 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. - \begin{figure} - \centering - \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/eng_pow.eps} - \caption{The energy saving percentages for the nodes executing the NAS benchmarks over the three power scenarios} - \label{fig:eng-pow} -\end{figure} \begin{figure} \centering - \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/per_pow.eps} - \caption{The performance degradation percentages for the NAS benchmarks over the three power scenarios} - \label{fig:per-pow} + \subfloat[The energy saving percentages for the nodes executing the NAS benchmarks over the three power scenarios]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/eng_pow.eps}\label{fig:eng-pow}} \hspace{2cm}% + \subfloat[The performance degradation percentages for the NAS benchmarks over the three power scenarios]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/per_pow.eps}\label{fig:per-pow}}\hspace{2cm}% + \subfloat[The tradeoff distance between the energy reduction and the performance of the NAS benchmarks over the three power scenarios]{% + + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/dist_pow.eps}\label{fig:dist-pow}} + \label{fig:exp-pow} + \caption{The experimental results of different static power scenarios} \end{figure} -\begin{figure} - \centering - \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/dist_pow.eps} - \caption{The tradeoff distance between the energy reduction and the performance of the NAS benchmarks over the three power scenarios} - \label{fig:dist-pow} -\end{figure} \begin{figure} \centering - \includegraphics[scale=0.47]{fig/three_scenarios.pdf} + \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/three_scenarios.pdf} \caption{Comparing the selected frequency scaling factors for the MG benchmark over the three static power scenarios} \label{fig:fre-pow} \end{figure} @@ -1218,24 +1205,15 @@ presented in the figures \ref{fig:edp-eng}, \ref{fig:edp-perf} and \ref{fig:edp- \begin{figure} \centering - \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/edp_eng} - \caption{The energy reduction induced by the Maxdist method and the EDP method} - \label{fig:edp-eng} -\end{figure} -\begin{figure} - \centering - \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/edp_per} - \caption{The performance degradation induced by the Maxdist method and the EDP method} - \label{fig:edp-perf} + \subfloat[The energy reduction induced by the Maxdist method and the EDP method]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/edp_eng}\label{fig:edp-eng}} \hspace{2cm}% + \subfloat[The performance degradation induced by the Maxdist method and the EDP method]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/edp_per}\label{fig:edp-perf}}\hspace{2cm}% + \subfloat[The tradeoff distance between the energy consumption reduction and the performance for the Maxdist method and the EDP method]{% + \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{fig/edp_dist}\label{fig:edp-dist}} + \label{fig:edp-comparison} + \caption{The comparison results} \end{figure} -\begin{figure} - \centering - \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig/edp_dist} - \caption{The tradeoff distance between the energy consumption reduction and the performance for the Maxdist method and the EDP method} - \label{fig:edp-dist} -\end{figure} - - As shown in these figures, the proposed frequencies selection algorithm, Maxdist, outperforms the EDP algorithm in terms of energy consumption reduction and performance for all of the benchmarks executed over the two scenarios. The proposed algorithm gives better results than EDP because it @@ -1249,7 +1227,6 @@ $O(N \cdot M \cdot F^2)$ respectively, where $N$ is the number of the clusters, maximum number of available frequencies. When Maxdist is applied to a benchmark that is being executed over 32 nodes distributed between Nancy and Lyon sites, it takes on average $0.01 ms$ to compute the best frequencies while EDP is on average ten times slower over the same architecture. - \section{Conclusion} \label{sec.concl} This paper has presented a new online frequencies selection algorithm. @@ -1262,8 +1239,8 @@ of the distributed iterative message passing application running over a grid arc To evaluate the proposed method on a real heterogeneous grid platform, it was applied on the NAS parallel benchmarks and the class D instance was executed over the grid'5000 testbed platform. The experimental results showed that the algorithm reduces on average 30\% of the energy consumption -for all the NAS benchmarks while only degrading by 3\% on average the performance. -The Maxdist algorithm was also evaluated in different scenarios that vary in the distribution of the computing nodes between different clusters' sites or in the values of the consumed static power. The algorithm selects different vector of frequencies according to the +for all the NAS benchmarks while only degrading by 3.2\% on average the performance. +The Maxdist algorithm was also evaluated in different scenarios that vary in the distribution of the computing nodes between different clusters' sites or use multi-cores per node architecture or consume different static power values. The algorithm selects different vector of frequencies according to the computations and communication times ratios, and the values of the static and measured dynamic powers of the CPUs. Finally, the proposed algorithm was compared to another method that uses the well known energy and delay product as an objective function. 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