Building the Table of Energy and Power Leverages for Energy Efficient Large Scale Systems

Large scale distributed systems and supercomputers consume huge amounts of energy. To address this issue, an heterogeneous set of capabilities and techniques that we call leverages exist to modify power and energy consumption in large scale systems. This includes hardware related leverages (such as Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling), middleware (such as scheduling policies) and application (such as the precision of computation) energy leverages. Discovering such leverages, benchmarking and orchestrating them, remains a real challenge for most of the users. In this paper, we formally define energy leverages, and we propose a solution to automatically build the table of leverages associated with a large set of independent computing resources. We show that the construction of the table can be parallelized at very large scale with a set of independent nodes in order to reduce its execution time while maintaining precision of observed knowledge.