Power-aware applications for scientific cluster and distributed computing

Understand

The aggregate power use of computing hardware is an important cost factor in scientific cluster and distributed computing systems.

• The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) is a major example of such a distributed computing system, used primarily for high throughput computing (HTC) applications.
• It has a computing capacity and power consumption rivaling that of the largest supercomputers.
• The computing capacity required from this system is also expected to grow over the next decade.