Abstract
Targeting mostly application performance, distributed systems have constantly increased in size and computing power of their resources. The power supply requirements of these systems have increased in a similar fashion, which has raised concerns about the energy they consume. This paper presents the Green Grid’5000 approach, a large-scale energy-sensing infrastructure with software components that allow users to precisely measure and understand the energy usage of their system. It also discusses a set of use-cases describing how an energy instrumented platform can be utilised by various categories of users, including administrators, Grid component designers, and distributed application end-users.
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Some experiments of this paper were performed on the Grid’5000 platform, an initiative from the French Ministry of Research through the ACI GRID incentive action, INRIA, CNRS, and RENATER and other contributing partners (http://www.grid5000.fr).
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The infrastructure is financially supported by the INRIA ARC GREEN-NET initiative and the ALADDIN/Grid’5000 consortium.
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RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data (http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/).
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hdparm is a command line utility for Linux to set and view the IDE hard disks hardware parameters.
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Iperf is a commonly-used network tool that can create TCP and UDP data streams to measure TCP and UDP bandwidth performance.
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cpuburn is a tool designed to heavily load CPU chips in order to test their reliability.
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stress is a tool to impose load on and stress test systems.
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de Assunção, M.D., Gelas, JP., Lefèvre, L., Orgerie, AC. (2012). The Green Grid’5000: Instrumenting and Using a Grid with Energy Sensors. In: Davoli, F., Lawenda, M., Meyer, N., Pugliese, R., Węglarz, J., Zappatore, S. (eds) Remote Instrumentation for eScience and Related Aspects. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0508-5_3
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