Abstract
Energy conservation and minimisation of operating costs are becoming increasingly important to High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. This presentation will briefly survey current “green” HPC hardware and infrastructure capabilities, and will then examine the role of software in minimising resource usage in HPC systems. Examples of current software capabilities will be given, and tips for tuning and developing energy-efficient HPC applications will be presented.
About the speaker
David is a Senior Systems Engineer with SGI.
David’s experience covers a wide range of roles, from systems engineering through to software development and Professional Services. He has designed solutions utilising high performance systems in areas such as transaction processing, wagering & gaming, telecommunications, real-time data acquisition & control, and video-on-demand. David has delivered projects encompassing all aspects of the system life cycle from requirements analysis, infrastructure design, hardware sizing, capacity planning, continuity planning, integration planning and benchmarking for new systems through to configuration management, change management and problem management for mature systems. David has also developed a wide range of system-level software, including data backup utilities, device drivers and operating systems modules, control systems, and video-on-demand software. One of his more interesting projects was writing real-time Linux-based data acquisition subsystems for the Australian Synchrotron. Prior to joining SGI, David worked for Microsoft, where he introduced Windows Compute Cluster Server into the Australian HPC market. Prior to Microsoft, David was Concurrent Computer Corp’s Chief Technology Officer for Asia/Pacific, where he designed real-time Linux and video-on-demand solutions. David has a Bachelor of Science in Computing Science from the University of Technology, Sydney.