Power vs. Performance: Calculating Performance per Watt for HPC Clusters

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When: Archived & On-demand

Hosts: Dr. Douglas Pase, STSM, IBM System x Performance

Duration: 60 minutes

Sponsors: IBM, Cisco, Intel

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Successfully designing a high-performance cluster under today’s power & cooling constraints means you need to push the envelope of your system’s performance/watt.

However, accurately calculating your cluster’s true performance/watt, is a complex process that goes far beyond just your processor’s published Thermal Design Point (TDP). We show you the correct method.

This webinar will cover:

• Review of server architectures and power considerations;
• Power consumed by major system components; and
• Common fallacies in calculating power vs performance

Finally, Dr. Pase will provide a tutorial on calculating performance/watt using just TDP versus a holistic approach (servers,
components, and applications) to predict total power consumption and maximum thermal density.

About the Speaker

Dr. Douglas Pase currently designs x86-based servers and products at IBM for the HPC industry. He is the author of 26 technical papers and 8 patents. He is a member of the Linux Cluster Institute steering committee and regularly teaches graduate courses at North Carolina State University.