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Towards Sustainable and Energy-Aware Massive Graph Processing in the Computing Continuum

Conference paper (2023) - Alexandru Iosup, Radu Prodan, Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Sacheendra Talluri, Gilles Magalhaes, Kailhan Hokstam, Hugo Zwaan, Vincent Van Beek, Reza Farahani, More Authors...
Our society is increasingly digital, and its processes are increasingly digitalized. As an emerging technology for the digital society, graphs provide a universal abstraction to represent concepts and objects, and the relationships between them. However, processing graphs at a massive scale raises numerous sustainability challenges; becoming energy-aware could help graph-processing infrastructure alleviate its climate impact. Graph Greenifier aims to address this challenge in the conceptual framework offered by the Graph Massivizer architecture. We present an early vision of how Graph Greenifier could provide sustainability analysis and decision-making capabilities for extreme graph-processing workloads. Graph Greenifier leverages an advanced digital twin for data center operations, based on the OpenDC open-source simulator, a novel toolchain for workload-driven simulation of graph processing at scale, and a sustainability predictor. The input to the digital twin combines monitoring of the information and communication technology infrastructure used for graph processing with data collected from the power grid. Graph Greenifier thus informs providers and consumers on operational sustainability aspects, requiring mutual information sharing, reducing energy consumption for graph analytics, and increasing the use of electricity from renewable sources. ...

Towards an efficient open platform for reconfigurable High Performance Computing

Conference paper (2015) - CǍtǍlin Bogdan Ciobanu, Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Tobias Becker, Georgi Gaydadjiev, Andreas Brokalakis, Antonis Nikitakis, Alex J.W. Thom, Elias Vansteenkiste, Dirk Stroobandt, Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, George Charitopoulos, Xinyu Niu, Wayne Luk, Marco D. Santambrogio, Donatella Sciuto, Muhammed Al Kadi, Michael Huebner
To handle the stringent performance requirements of future exascale-class applications, High Performance Computing (HPC) systems need ultra-efficient heterogeneous compute nodes. To reduce power and increase performance, such compute nodes will require hardware accelerators with a high degree of specialization. Ideally, dynamic reconfiguration will be an intrinsic feature, so that specific HPC application features can be optimally accelerated, even if they regularly change over time. In the EXTRA project, we create a new and flexible exploration platform for developing reconfigurable architectures, design tools and HPC applications with run-time reconfiguration built-in as a core fundamental feature instead of an add-on. EXTRA covers the entire stack from architecture up to the application, focusing on the fundamental building blocks for run-time reconfigurable exascale HPC systems: new chip architectures with very low reconfiguration overhead, new tools that truly take reconfiguration as a central design concept, and applications that are tuned to maximally benefit from the proposed run-time reconfiguration techniques. Ultimately, this open platform will improve Europe's competitive advantage and leadership in the field. ...