With increasing high performance computing (HPC) energy consumption and the rising cost of energy, it has become important to be able to monitor and manage energy and power consumption. Dashboards will monitor and display energy and power consumption of various physical data center components in or near real time as well as trend data. The dashboard will display monitored, measured, and calculated parameters. A survey of the major United States Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory HPC data centers was completed in early 2012. Only a few DOE labs reported having energy performance dashboards and those were described as partial, piecemeal and under construction. As a result of the 2012 survey, the Energy Efficient HPC Working Group published recommendations for energy and power elements of an HPC data center dashboard. Another survey was recently completed as part of a 'Birds of Feather' Session at SC15. This survey tested the relevance of the recommendations. This paper provides an update on recommendations to help select or tailor the energy and power elements or parameters of an HPC datacenter dashboard.
Bates, Natalie; Hsu, Chung-Hsing; Imam, Neena; Wilde, Torsten; Sartor, Dale