X-Git-Url: https://bilbo.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/and/gitweb/mpi-energy2.git/blobdiff_plain/8f9f451ef1d8fc5aeba735be77e4000588baffdb..6f654dc78519e3caa1dfdec3a8be444277823ce4:/mpi-energy2-extension/Heter_paper.tex diff --git a/mpi-energy2-extension/Heter_paper.tex b/mpi-energy2-extension/Heter_paper.tex index 85f68f4..0973f10 100644 --- a/mpi-energy2-extension/Heter_paper.tex +++ b/mpi-energy2-extension/Heter_paper.tex @@ -395,8 +395,8 @@ where $N$ is the number of clusters in the grid, $M_i$ is the number of nodes cluster $i$, $\TcpOld[ij]$ is the computation time of processor $j$ in the cluster $i$ and $\Tcm[hj]$ is the communication time of processor $j$ in the cluster $h$ during the first iteration. The execution time for one iteration is equal to the sum of the maximum computation time for all nodes with the new scaling factors -and the communication time of the slower node without slack time during one iteration. -The slower node $h$ is the node that gives the maximum execution time in all the clusters before applying DVFS. +and the communication time of the slowest node without slack time during one iteration. + The slowest node $h$ is the node which takes the maximum execution time to execute an iteration before scaling down its frequency. It means that only the communication time without any slack time is taken into account. Therefore, the execution time of the application is equal to the execution time of one iteration as in Equation (\ref{eq:perf}) multiplied by the @@ -547,8 +547,8 @@ frequency scaling factors for a homogeneous and a heterogeneous cluster respecti Both methods selects the frequencies that gives the best trade-off between energy consumption reduction and performance for message passing synchronous applications \textcolor{blue}{with iterations}. In this work we -are interested in grids that are composed of heterogeneous clusters, \textcolor{blue}{where} the nodes -have different characteristics such as dynamic power, static power, computation power, +are interested in grids that are composed of heterogeneous clusters. The nodes from distinct clusters may have + different characteristics such as dynamic power, static power, computation power, frequencies range, network latency and bandwidth. 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.