Energy-efficient large-scale simulations: Hardware and software perspectives

26 Sept 2024

Speaker: Junichiro Makino (Kobe University/Preferred Networks)

Abstract:

In the last 50 years, the energy consumption of supercomputers have increased by more than two orders of magnitude. In recent years, due to the quite rapid growth of the use of AI in data centers, the total power consumption of data centers also has increased rapidly and is predicted to show similar increase. In this talk, I discuss the physical/technological reason for such a rapid increase of power consumption and what we can do for reducing the power consumption, from the viewpoints of both hardware and software.