Intel Corporation

Justin J Song

Devadatta V Bodas

Andy Hoffman

Muralidhar Rajappa

Brian J Griffith

James W Alexander

Viktor D Vogman

Joseph A Schaefer

Qian Diao

Sunil K Mahawar

Gopal R Mundada

Devadatta V (Deva) Bodas

Muralidhar (Murali) Rajappa

James W (Jimbo) Alexander

Alon Naveh

Ohad Falik

Ilan Pardo

Christopher E Cox

James B Crossland

John H Crawford

Sridhar Muthrasanallur

Anil Aggarwal

Nagi Aboulenein

Charles R Yount

Ramakrishna Huggahalli

Mariusz Oriol

Xiuting C Man

Michael K Patterson

Ilya Sharapov

Rebecca Z Loop

Scott B Huck

Meenakshi Arunachalam

Lingdan (Linda) Zeng

Lawrence A Cooper

A system with improved power performance for tasks executed in parallel. A plurality of processing cores each to execute tasks. An inter-core messaging unit to conveys messages between the cores. A power management agent transitions a first core into a lower power state responsive to the first core waiting for a second core to complete a second task. In some embodiments long messages are subdivided to allow a receiving core to resume useful work sooner.

Method and apparatus to improve energy efficiency of parallel tasks

A server system includes a common power bus, a power supply to provide direct current (DC) power through the common power bus, at least one node including a processor to receive the DC power through the common power bus, a transmitter capacitive coupled to the common power bus to transmit a power information signal from the power supply through the common power bus, and at least one receiver capacitive coupled to the common power bus to receive the power information signal transmitted by the transmitter and to provide the received power information signal to the at least one node. A plurality of buffers respectively coupled between the common power bus and each of the power supply and the at least one node provide path separation for high frequency and low frequency currents.

Methods and systems for server power line communication

A zombie server can be detected. Detecting a zombie server can include labeling a plurality of processes as utility software, calculating a utilization of utility software on the plurality of processes executed in one or more processing resources during an interval of time, and calculating a server utilization of the one or more processing resources during the interval of time. Detecting the zombie server can also include determining whether a difference between the utilization of utility software and the server utilization is greater than a threshold, and identifying a server that hosts the processing resource as a zombie server based on a determination that the difference is smaller than the threshold.

Systems and methods for detecting a zombie server

A method and apparatus for node power regulation among nodes that share a power supply are described. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a power supply unit to provide input power and a plurality of nodes coupled to receive the input power, where each node of the plurality of nodes is operable to run power management logic, and wherein two or more nodes of the plurality of nodes alternate between performing power management and providing power regulation control information to other nodes of the plurality of nodes to regulate power consumption by the plurality of nodes, with, at any one time, only one node of plurality of nodes generating the power regulation control to regulate power for the plurality of nodes.

Method and apparatus to maintain node power budget for systems that share a power supply

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions, the instructions being executable by one or more processors to perform operations including: receiving, by a calibration module executed by the one or more processors, a calibration request including (i) a workload type, (ii) a list of compute nodes belonging to a distributed computer system, and (iii) one or more frequencies; responsive to identifying the workload type as a clustered workload type, instructing a plurality of compute nodes on the list of compute nodes to begin processing a workload of the workload type; and responsive to identifying the workload type as a clustered workload type, instructing a compute node on the list of compute nodes to begin processing the workload of the workload type is shown.

Method and apparatus to generate and use power, thermal and performance characteristics of nodes to improve energy efficiency and reducing wait time for jobs in the queue

A zombie server can be detected. Detecting a zombie server can include receiving, at a server, network traffic and calculating a percentage of the network traffic as being productivity software layer 7 protocols every first time interval. Detecting a zombie server can also include marking the server as a zombie server based on the percentage every second time interval and processing the network traffic at the server to perform a number of actions by the productivity software.

A method and apparatus for coordinating and authenticating requests for data. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises: a baseboard management controller (BMC); and a request coordinator coupled to the BMC to intercept BMC requests and to provide intercepted requests to the BMC, where the coordination interface comprises a request parser to parse parameters for each of the BMC requests, one or more queues to store the requests while the BMC is servicing another BMC request, and a command submitter to send individual BMC requests to the BMC, wherein the BMC is operable to generate the responses to the BMC requests received from the coordination interface and to send the responses to the coordination interface.

Method and apparatus to coordinate and authenticate requests for data

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions executable by one or more processors of a distributed computer system to perform operations including determining whether a power consumed by the distributed computer system is greater than a power allocated to the distributed computer system, responsive to determining the power consumed by the distributed computer system is greater than the power allocated to the distributed computer system, determining whether all jobs being processed by the distributed computer system are processing at a lowest power state for each job, wherein a job includes one or more calculations performed by the one or more processors of the distributed computer system and responsive to determining all jobs being processed by the distributed computer system are processing at a lowest power state for each job, suspending a job having a lowest priority among all jobs being processed by the distributed computer system is shown.

Methods and apparatus to manage jobs that can and cannot be suspended when there is a change in power allocation to a distributed computer system

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for providing power state change information from a plurality of cores of a processor to a predictor at a periodic interval and generating a prediction to indicate a predicted operation level of the cores during a next operating period. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Predicting future power level states for processor cores

A method of assessing energy efficiency of a High-performance computing (HPC) system, including: selecting a plurality of HPC workloads to run on a system under test (SUT) with one or more power constraints, wherein the SUT includes a plurality of HPC nodes in the HPC system, executing the plurality of HPC workloads on the SUT, and generating a benchmark metric for the SUT based on a baseline configuration for each selected HPC workload and a plurality of measured performance per power values for each executed workload at each selected power constraint is shown.

Method to assess energy efficiency of HPC system operated with and without power constraints

A system and method for computing at a facility having systems of multiple compute nodes to execute jobs of computing. Power consumption of the facility is managed to within a power band. The power consumption may be adjusted by implementing (e.g., by a power balloon) activities having little or no computational output.

Control of power consumption

A process identifier for a job is collected. The job runs on a plurality of nodes. The job is identified using the process identifier. A node for the job is identified. An amount of power consumed by the node to run the job is determined.

Profiling a job power and energy consumption for a data processing system

An indication of a mode for a job is received. An available power for the job is determined based on the mode. A first power for the job is allocated based on the available power. A first frequency for the job is determined based on the available power. The first power is adjusted based on the available power.

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Justin J Song