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2nd International Workshop on
Energy Efficient Supercomputing
(E2SC)
Nov. 16th, 2014
Held in conjunction with;
SC14: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
November 16 - 21, 2014
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Description
With Exascale systems on the horizon, we have ushered in an era with power and
energy consumption as the primary concerns for scalable computing. To achieve
viable high performance computing, revolutionary methods are required with a
stronger integration among hardware features, system software and
applications. Equally important are the capabilities for fine-grained spatial
and temporal measurement and control to facilitate energy efficient
computing accross alllayers. Current approaches for energy efficient computing rely heavily on
power efficient hardware in isolation. However, it is pivotal for hardware to
expose mechanisms for energy efficiency to optimize power and energy
consumption for various workloads. At the same time, high fidelity measurement
techniques, typically ignored in data-center level measurement, are of high
importance for scalable and energy efficient inter-play in different layers
of application, system software and hardware.
This workshop seeks to address the important energy efficiency aspects in the
HPC community that have not been previously addressed by aspects covered in
the data center or cloud computing communities. Emphasis is given to the
applications view related to significant energy efficiency improvements and
to the required hardware/software stack that must include necessary power and
performance measurement and analysis harnesses.
Current tools are often limited by hardware capabilities and their lack of
information about the characteristics of a given workload/application. In the
same manner, hardware techniques, like dynamic voltage frequency scaling, are
often limited by their granularity (very coarse power management) or by their
scope (a very limited system view). More rapid realization of energy savings
will require significant increases in measurement resolution and optimization
techniques. Moreover, the interplay between performance, power and
reliability add another layer of complexity to this already difficult group
of challenges.
DATES AND DEADLINES
Paper Submission: August 24, 2014 August 29, 2014
Author Notification: September 30, 2014
Camera-Ready Copy: October 10, 2014
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