Towards efficient supercomputing: searching for the right efficiency metric

Authors:
Chung-Hsing Hsu;Jeffery A. Kuehn;Stephen W. Poole
Affiliations:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA;Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA;Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Venue:
ICPE '12 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Efficiency in supercomputing has traditionally focused on execution time. In early 2000's, the concept of total cost of ownership was re-introduced, with the introduction of efficiency measure to include aspects such as energy and space. Yet the supercomputing community has never agreed upon a metric that can cover these aspects completely and also provide a fair basis for comparison. This paper examines the metrics that have been proposed in the past decade, and proposes a vector-valued metric for efficient supercomputing. Using this metric, the paper presents a study of where the supercomputing industry has been and where it stands today with respect to efficient supercomputing.