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Checkpoint and Restart: An Energy Consumption Characterization in Clusters

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Computer Science – CACIC 2018 (CACIC 2018)

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The fault tolerance method currently used in High Performance Computing (HPC) is the rollback-recovery method by using checkpoints. This, like any other fault tolerance method, adds an additional energy consumption to that of the execution of the application. The objective of this work is to determine the factors that affect the energy consumption of the computing nodes on homogeneous cluster, when performing checkpoint and restart operations, on SPMD (Single Program Multiple Data) applications. We have focused on the energetic study of compute nodes, contemplating different configurations of hardware and software parameters. We studied the effect of performance states (states P) and power states (states C) of processors, application problem size, checkpoint software (DMTCP) and distributed file system (NFS) configuration. The results analysis allowed to identify opportunities to reduce the energy consumption of checkpoint and restart operations.

This research has been supported by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), Spain and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) UE, under contract TIN2017-84875-P and partially funded by a research collaboration agreement with the Fundacion Escuelas Universitarias Gimbernat (EUG).

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    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.html.

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    https://linux.die.net/man/5/nfs.

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    https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/turbo-boost/turbo-boost-technology.html.

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  1. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300, Neuquén, Argentina

    Marina Morán & Javier Balladini

  2. Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y Sistemas Operativos, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus UAB, Edifici Q, 08193, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain

    Dolores Rexachs & Emilio Luque

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Morán, M., Balladini, J., Rexachs, D., Luque, E. (2019). Checkpoint and Restart: An Energy Consumption Characterization in Clusters. In: Pesado, P., Aciti, C. (eds) Computer Science – CACIC 2018. CACIC 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 995. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20787-8_2

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