From: afanfakh Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 10:25:54 +0000 (+0100) Subject: some corrections X-Git-Tag: pdsec15_submission~50 X-Git-Url: https://bilbo.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/and/gitweb/mpi-energy2.git/commitdiff_plain/9605046971a2c8e2559533218ec4dfde7654c465 some corrections --- diff --git a/Heter_paper.tex b/Heter_paper.tex index d2180d9..f34524c 100644 --- a/Heter_paper.tex +++ b/Heter_paper.tex @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ \newcommand{\Told}{\Xsub{T}{Old}} \begin{document} -\title{Energy Consumption Reduction in a Heterogeneous Architecture Using DVFS} +\title{Energy Consumption Reduction for Message Passing Iterative Applications in Heterogeneous Architecture Using DVFS} \author{% \IEEEauthorblockN{% @@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ Therefore, the frequency that gives the best tradeoff between the energy consum application must be selected. In this paper, a new online frequencies selecting algorithm for heterogeneous platforms is presented. -It selects the frequency that give the best tradeoff between energy saving and performance degradation, +It selects the frequency that try to give the best tradeoff 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 platform. The proposed algorithm evaluated on the Simgrid simulator while +running on a heterogeneous platform. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on the Simgrid simulator while running the NAS parallel benchmarks. The experiments demonstrated that it reduces the energy consumption up to 35\% while limiting the performance degradation as much as possible. \end{abstract} @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Tianhe-2 platform is approximately more than \$10 millions each year. The computing platforms must be more energy efficient and offer the highest number of FLOPS per watt possible, such as the L-CSC from the GSI Helmholtz Center which became the top of the Green500 list in November 2014 \cite{Green500_List}. -This heterogeneous platform executes more than 5 GFLOPS per watt while consuming 57.15 kilowatts. +This heterogeneous platform executes more than 5 GFLOPS per watt while consumed 57.15 kilowatts. Besides hardware improvements, there are many software techniques to lower the energy consumption of these platforms, such as scheduling, DVFS, ... DVFS is a widely used process to reduce the energy consumption of a processor by lowering @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ factors is nonlinear, for more details refer to~\cite{Freeh_Exploring.the.Energy Moreover, they are not measured using the same metric. To solve this problem, the execution time is normalized 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: +frequency for all nodes) as follows: \begin{multline} \label{eq:pnorm} P_\textit{Norm} = \frac{T_\textit{New}}{T_\textit{Old}}\\ @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ Where $E_\textit{Reduced}$ and $E_\textit{Original}$ are computed using (\ref{eq While the main 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 -to the equations~(\ref{eq:enorm}) and~(\ref{eq:pnorm}), the vector of frequency +to the equations~(\ref{eq:pnorm}) and (\ref{eq:enorm}), the vector of frequency scaling factors $S_1,S_2,\dots,S_N$ reduce both the energy and the execution time simultaneously. But the main objective is to produce maximum energy reduction with minimum execution time reduction. @@ -456,8 +456,8 @@ normalized execution time is inverted which gives the normalized performance equ \end{figure} Then, the objective function can be modeled as finding the maximum distance -between the energy curve EQ~(\ref{eq:enorm}) and the performance -curve EQ~(\ref{eq:pnor@+eYd162m_inv}) over all available sets of scaling factors. This +between the energy curve (\ref{eq:enorm}) and the performance +curve (\ref{eq:pnorm_inv}) over all available sets of scaling factors. This represents the minimum energy consumption with minimum execution time (maximum performance) at the same time, see figure~(\ref{fig:r1}) or figure~(\ref{fig:r2}). Then the objective function has the following form: @@ -468,8 +468,8 @@ function has the following form: (\overbrace{P_\textit{Norm}(S_{ij})}^{\text{Maximize}} - \overbrace{E_\textit{Norm}(S_{ij})}^{\text{Minimize}} ) \end{equation} -where $N$ is the number of nodes and $F$ is the number of available frequencies for each nodes. -Then, the optimal set of scaling factors that satisfies EQ~(\ref{eq:max}) can be selected. +where $N$ is the number of nodes and $F$ is the number of available frequencies for each node. +Then, the optimal set of scaling factors that satisfies (\ref{eq:max}) can be selected. The objective function can work with any energy model or any power values for each node (static and dynamic powers). However, the most energy reduction gain can be achieved when the energy curve has a convex form as shown in~\cite{Zhuo_Energy.efficient.Dynamic.Task.Scheduling,Rauber_Analytical.Modeling.for.Energy,Hao_Learning.based.DVFS}. @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ the energy curve has a convex form as shown in~\cite{Zhuo_Energy.efficient.Dynam \label{sec.optim} \subsection{The algorithm details} -In this section algorithm~(\ref{HSA}) is presented. It selects the frequency scaling factors +In this section algorithm \ref{HSA} is presented. It 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. It works online during the execution time of the iterative message passing program. @@ -569,12 +569,11 @@ which results in bigger energy savings. \State Round the computed initial frequencies $F_i$ to the closest one available in each node. \If{(not the first frequency)} \State $F_i \gets F_i+Fdiff_i,~i=1,\dots,N.$ - \State where $i=1,\dots,N$ means for loop. \EndIf \State $T_\textit{Old} \gets max_{~i=1,\dots,N } (Tcp_i+Tcm_i)$ \State $E_\textit{Original} \gets \sum_{i=1}^{N}{( Pd_i \cdot Tcp_i)} +\sum_{i=1}^{N} {(Ps_i \cdot T_{Old})}$ - \State $Sopt_{i} \gets \frac{Fmax_i}{F_i},~i=1,\dots,N. $ - \State Computing the initial distance $Dist \gets\Pnorm(Sopt_i) - \Enorm(Sopt_i) $ + \State $Sopt_{i} \gets 1,~i=1,\dots,N. $ + \State $Dist \gets 0 $ \While {(all nodes not reach their minimum frequency)} \If{(not the last freq. \textbf{and} not the slowest node)} \State $F_i \gets F_i - Fdiff_i,~i=1,\dots,N.$ @@ -616,7 +615,7 @@ which results in bigger energy savings. \label{dvfs} \end{algorithm} -\subsection{The verifications of the proposed algorithm} +\subsection{The evaluation of the proposed algorithm} \label{sec.verif.algo} The precision of the proposed algorithm mainly depends on the execution time prediction model defined in (\ref{eq:perf}) and the energy model computed by (\ref{eq:energy}). @@ -635,7 +634,7 @@ that tests all the possible solutions. The brute force algorithm was applied to different number of nodes. The solutions returned by the brute force algorithm and the proposed algorithm were identical and the proposed algorithm was on average 10 times faster than the brute force algorithm. It has a small execution time: for a heterogeneous cluster composed of four different types of nodes having the characteristics presented in -table~(\ref{table:platform}), it takes on average \np[ms]{0.04} for 4 nodes and \np[ms]{0.15} on average for 144 nodes +table~\ref{table:platform}, it takes on average \np[ms]{0.04} for 4 nodes and \np[ms]{0.15} on average for 144 nodes to compute the best scaling factors vector. The algorithm complexity is $O(F\cdot (N \cdot4) )$, where $F$ is the number of iterations and $N$ is the number of computing nodes. The algorithm needs from 12 to 20 iterations to select the best vector of frequency scaling factors that gives the results of the next sections. diff --git a/fig/commtasks.pdf b/fig/commtasks.pdf index 5c891e9..0e39a6d 100644 Binary files a/fig/commtasks.pdf and b/fig/commtasks.pdf differ