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Project title

Towards Energy Optimized High-Performance Computing: Reducing Energy Cost of Communication on Modern Heterogeneous and Hybrid Computing Platforms

Primary Funding Agency

Irish Research Council

Co-Funding Organisation(s)

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Lead Organisation

Technological University Dublin (TUD)

Lead Applicant

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Project Abstract

The share of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in total energy consumption is drastically increasing and set to reach 20% by 2030. The tremendous boost in the performance of modern High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems, data centers, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Smart City platforms comes at the cost of energy consumption. Consequently, tons of watts of power are being consumed by these HPC and supercomputing data centers. Considering the unsustainable future predicted, energy efficiency becomes a mainstream challenge for the scientific community as well as government and industry. The mainstream approach to energy optimization of computing on these platforms is to minimize the energy of the execution environment rather than an application running on the environment. However, it is now a validated fact that the optimization of the application for energy consumption of a platform during the data movement between memories of computing devices is also significant. This application-level communication energy optimization is comparatively understudied and forms the focus of this research proposal. The proposed research will develop methods, algorithms, and software for accurate measurement and optimization of the energy cost of communication and performance of applications on modern highly heterogeneous, and hybrid systems. Due to the significance of the research topic, combined with the Irish government's commitment to supporting the 2015 Paris Agreement, the EU 2030 Climate and Energy Framework, and Ireland�s National Mitigation Plan 2017, the findings and outcome of the proposed research will be compelling and beneficial for several stockholders- including government and international organizations.

Grant Approved

�110,000.00

Research Hub

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Research Theme

Climate Solutions, Transition Management and Opportunities

Start Date

01/01/2023

Initial Projected Completion Date

31/12/2026