Towards efficient supercomputing
Chung‐Hsing Hsu, Jeffery A Kuehn, Stephen Poole · 2012
Efficiency in supercomputing has traditionally focused on execution time. In early 2000's, the concept of total cost of ownership was re-introduced, with the introduction of efficiency measure to include aspects such as energy and space. Yet the supercomputing community has never agreed upon a metric that can cover these aspects completely and also provide a fair basis for comparison. This paper examines the metrics that have been proposed in the past decade, and proposes a vector-valued metric for efficient supercomputing. Using this metric, the paper presents a study of where the supercomputing industry has been and where it stands today with respect to efficient supercomputing.