Power-Aware Scheduling for Multi-Center HPC Electricity Cost Optimization

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Autori principali: Hossain, Abrar, Abdurahman, Abubeker, Islam, Mohammad A., Ahmed, Kishwar
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Hossain, Abrar
Abdurahman, Abubeker
Islam, Mohammad A.
Ahmed, Kishwar
author_facet Hossain, Abrar
Abdurahman, Abubeker
Islam, Mohammad A.
Ahmed, Kishwar
contents This paper introduces TARDIS (Temporal Allocation for Resource Distribution using Intelligent Scheduling), a novel power-aware job scheduler for High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems that minimizes electricity costs through both temporal and spatial optimization. Our approach addresses the growing concerns of energy consumption in HPC centers, where electricity expenses constitute a substantial portion of operational costs and have a significant financial impact. TARDIS employs a Graph Neural Network (GNN) to accurately predict individual job power consumption, then uses these predictions to strategically schedule jobs across multiple HPC facilities based on time-varying electricity prices. The system integrates both temporal scheduling, shifting power-intensive workloads to off-peak hours, and spatial scheduling, distributing jobs across geographically dispersed centers with different pricing schemes. We evaluate TARDIS using trace-based simulations from real HPC workloads, demonstrating cost reductions of up to 18% in temporal optimization scenarios and 10 to 20% in multi-site environments compared to state-of-the-art scheduling approaches, while maintaining comparable system performance and job throughput. Our comprehensive evaluation shows that TARDIS effectively addresses limitations in existing power-aware scheduling approaches by combining accurate power prediction with holistic spatial-temporal optimization, providing a scalable solution for sustainable and cost-efficient HPC operations.
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spellingShingle Power-Aware Scheduling for Multi-Center HPC Electricity Cost Optimization
Hossain, Abrar
Abdurahman, Abubeker
Islam, Mohammad A.
Ahmed, Kishwar
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
This paper introduces TARDIS (Temporal Allocation for Resource Distribution using Intelligent Scheduling), a novel power-aware job scheduler for High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems that minimizes electricity costs through both temporal and spatial optimization. Our approach addresses the growing concerns of energy consumption in HPC centers, where electricity expenses constitute a substantial portion of operational costs and have a significant financial impact. TARDIS employs a Graph Neural Network (GNN) to accurately predict individual job power consumption, then uses these predictions to strategically schedule jobs across multiple HPC facilities based on time-varying electricity prices. The system integrates both temporal scheduling, shifting power-intensive workloads to off-peak hours, and spatial scheduling, distributing jobs across geographically dispersed centers with different pricing schemes. We evaluate TARDIS using trace-based simulations from real HPC workloads, demonstrating cost reductions of up to 18% in temporal optimization scenarios and 10 to 20% in multi-site environments compared to state-of-the-art scheduling approaches, while maintaining comparable system performance and job throughput. Our comprehensive evaluation shows that TARDIS effectively addresses limitations in existing power-aware scheduling approaches by combining accurate power prediction with holistic spatial-temporal optimization, providing a scalable solution for sustainable and cost-efficient HPC operations.
title Power-Aware Scheduling for Multi-Center HPC Electricity Cost Optimization
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11011