Special Issue "Energy Aware Computing"

Guest Editor
Dr. Pedro Jorda Alonso
School of Engineering in Geodesy, Cartography and Surveying, Dept. of Computer Systems and Computation, Universidad Politécnica of Valencia, Camino de Vera, s/n, 46022 Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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Interests: parallel computing; numerical algorithms; GPU computing; structured matrices

Dear Colleagues,

Power consumption has a direct impact on the operation and maintenance costs of High Performance Computing (HPC) centers. As we target the Exaflop barrier, the energy consumption impairs the deployment of new facilities and makes the HPC center economically unfeasible. This high consumption of power comes from the ever growing number of transistors on the processors and the steep increase in the number of them in clusters, the traditional way to obtain more and more performance. In addition, the cooling systems and other infrastructure elements required to maintain the system under a temperature threshold do nothing but increase to economical and ecological problem. Therefore, since energy consumption is nowadays a major concern in HPC, solutions to this problem stand as a crucial challenge. Much research should still be done in both hardware and software energy-aware tools to reduce power requirements. This is the challenge the HPC community will face for the upcoming years.

Dr. Pedro Jorda Alonso
Guest Editor

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• Energy-aware
• power consumption
• energy modeling
• energy monitoring
• energy-aware analysis
• energy tuning
• energy-saving methods