Eighth Annual Workshop for the Energy Efficient HPC Working Group (EE HPC WG)

 

Workshop Agenda:

 

• 09:00 Opening Remarks, Introductions, Agenda Review  - Torsten Wilde, LRZ
• 09:15 Lessons Learned in 40 Years of HPC – Buddy Bland, ORNL
• 10:00 Morning Break
• 10:30 State of the WG -  Natalie Bates
• 11:20 Operations Lessons Learned & Energy Efficiency– Josip Loncaric, LANL
  • Case Studies/Panel with:
    • Operations and Energy Efficiency - NERSC
    • Operation improvements Of Facility For The K Computer - RIKEN AICS,
    • Operations and Energy Efficiency Site Update - Cineca
    • Operations Lessons Learned and Energy Efficiency Case Studies Panel - STFC
• 12:00 Lunch - Facilitated Discussion Tables
  • 1) Liquid Cooling, 2) System Power Measurements, 3) Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS), and 4) SW Stack Efficiency
• 13:30 The Power Grid – Mike Patterson & Josip Loncaric
  • Site Specific updates; ORNL, LRZ, LANL, LLNL, NREL
  • What you need to know about the power grid before adding a 10 MW step-function load generator – Ben Kroposki- NREL
• 15:00 Afternoon Break
• 15:30 DOE’s Path Forward and getting to Exascale - Jim Ang, SNL
• 16:00 Software Stack & it’s implications to Energy Efficiency - Steve Martin, Cray & Ram Nagappan, Intel, Case Studies & Panel with:
  • GEOPM at LRZ - J Eastep, Intel
  • READEX Update and Results - A Gocht, TU Dresden
  • Arm & Energy Efficiency at Mont-Blanc - R Rusitoru
• 17:20 Closing Remarks - Natalie Bates
• 17:30 Adjourn

 

Other EE HPC WG Technical Sessions

 

Research Poster: Tuesday- Thursday 8:30-5:00

• “Global Survey of Energy and Power-aware Job Scheduling and Resource Management in Supercomputing Centers”

 

Birds of Feather:  Tuesday 12:15-1:15 Room 605

• “Total Cost of Ownership and HPC System Procurement”

• • Energy Efficiency Considerations for HPC Procurement Documents: 2017
  • EE HPC WG Liquid Cooling Controls Team Whitepaper.  June 11, 2017
  • Systematic Approach For Universal Commissioning Plan For Liquid-Cooled Systems

Birds of a Feather:  Tuesday 5:15-7:00 Room 712

• “Power API, GEOPM and Redfish: Open Interfaces for Power/Energy Measurement and Control”

• • Introduction
  • Power API Overview
  • Redfish Overview and Redfish Agent for Power API
  • GEOPM Overview
  • Power API User Experiences
  • GEOPM LLNL Experience
  • GEOPM STFC Experience
  • EE HPC WG Liquid Cooling Controls Team Whitepaper.  June 11, 2017

Birds of a Feather:  Wednesday 12:15-1:15 Room 501/502

• “State of the Practice: Energy and Power Aware Job Scheduling and Resource Management”
  • Whitepaper: A Survey of Energy and Power Aware Job Scheduling and Resource Management Techniques in Supercomputing Centers

Birds of a Feather:  Wednesday 5:15-7:00 Room 402/403/404

• “Green500: Trends in Energy Efficient Supercomputing”

• • Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Power Measurement Methodology

Panel:  Friday 10:30-noon Room 201/203

• “Energy Efficiency Gains from Software: Retrospectives and Perspectives”
  • Energy Efficiency Gains from Software: Retrospectives and Perspectives” (External website)
• This panel will explore what HPC software capabilities were most helpful over the past years in improving HPC system energy efficiency? It will then look forward; asking in what layers of the software stack should a priority be put on introducing energy-awareness; e.g., runtime, scheduling, applications? What is needed moving forward? Who is responsible for that forward momentum?
• Moderator/Panelists:  Dan Reed, Satoshi Matsuoka, Sadaf Alam, Bill Gropp and John Shalf

 

 

SC17 EE HPC WG Exhibtor Booth

 

Topic- Specific Booth Schedule

 

• Liquid Cooling: Tuesday and Wednesday 10:30am to Noon
• Reliability Availability Serviceability and Maintainability:  Tuesday 2:00pm - 4:00pm
• Software and Energy Efficiency: Wednesday 11:00am to Noon, 3:00pm – 4:00pm