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Calcul haute performance et efficacité énergétique : focus sur OpenFOAM

Cyrille Bonamy,L. Lefèvre,G. Moreau

Published 2019 in Unknown venue

ABSTRACT

High performance calculation is increasingly used within society. Previously reserved for an elite, based on large computing and storage infrastructures, it is now a core module for many companies. Indeed, high performance calculation makes it possible to design and optimize many elements for a limited cost ,compared to the production of prototypes or tests in situ. It is also widely used in big data and artificial intelligence.It seems essential to ask about theenvironmental impact of these digital practices. A number of actions have already been initiated in this community: GREEN500; European CoC eco-responsibility label for Data centres... but these actions generally look at specific or even idealised situations and/or software.The software qualification process in the field of high performance calculation consists in looking at the scalability of the software. The originality of this study is to focus on energy scalability (calculation return time depending on the power consumed), by considering several architectures (three TOP500 machines and a laboratory cluster).The energy cost of an example calculation could be estimated, which shows that the most efficient machine in terms of calculation time is not necessarily the most energy efficient, and depending on the number of cores/processes chosen, it is not always the same architecture that is the most energy-efficient. It was therefore possible to show that the longer the user is prepared to wait, the less energy is used by the calculation.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2019

  • Venue

    Unknown venue

  • Publication date

    2019-12-03

  • Fields of study

    Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    arXiv 1912.03920
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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