Leveraging rCUDA for Enhancing Low-Power Deployments in the Physics Domain
Federico Silla, Javier Prades, Carlos Reaño · 2018
Traditionally, High-Performance Computing (HPC) has been associated with large power requirements. The reason was that chip makers of the processors typically employed in HPC deployments have always focused on getting the highest performance from their designs, regardless of the energy their processors may consume. Actually, for many years only heat dissipation was the real barrier for achieving higher performance, at the cost of higher energy consumption. However, a new trend has recently appeared consisting on the use of low-power processors for HPC purposes. The Mont-Blanc and Isambard projects are good examples of this trend. These proposals, however, do not consider the use of GPUs.