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PPAM 2019: Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics pp 191–202Cite as

Application-Aware Power Capping Using Nornir

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Power consumption of IT infrastructure is a major concern for data centre operators. Since data centres power supply is usually dimensioned for an average-case scenario, uncorrelated and simultaneous power spikes in multiple servers could lead to catastrophic effects such as power outages. To avoid such situations, power capping solutions are usually put in place by data centre operators, to control power consumption of individual server and to avoid the datacenter exceeding safe operational limits. However, most power capping solutions rely on Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS), which is not always able to guarantee the power cap specified by the user, especially for low power budget values. In this work, we propose a power-capping algorithm that uses a combination of DVFS and Thread Packing. We implement this algorithm in the Nornir framework and we validate it on some real applications by comparing it to the Intel RAPL power capping algorithm and another state of the art power capping algorithm.

This work has been partially supported by Univ. of Pisa PRA_2018_66 DECLware: Declarative methodologies for designing and deploying applications.

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    Actually, static power could change when changing the frequency f. However, this is a common approximation and, as we will see in Sect. 5, it does not alter the accuracy of our algorithm.

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    Daniele De Sensi & Marco Danelutto

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De Sensi, D., Danelutto, M. (2020). Application-Aware Power Capping Using Nornir. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Deelman, E., Dongarra, J., Karczewski, K. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12044. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43222-5_17

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