An on/off link activation method for low-power ethernet in PC clusters

Michihiro Koibuchi; Tomohiro Otsuka; Hiroki Matsutani; Hideharu Amano

doi:10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161069

An on/off link activation method for low-power ethernet in PC clusters

Michihiro Koibuchi, Tomohiro Otsuka, Hiroki Matsutani, Hideharu Amano

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Abstract

The power consumption of interconnects is increased as the link bandwidth is improved in PC clusters. In this paper, we propose an on/off link activation method that uses the static analysis of the traffic in order to reduce the power consumption of Ethernet switches while maintaining the performance of PC clusters. When a link whose utilization is low is deactivated, the proposed method renews the VLAN-based paths that avoid it without creating broadcast storms. Since each host does not need to process VLAN tags, the proposed method has advantages in both simple host configuration and high portability. Evaluation results using NAS Parallel Benchmarks show that the proposed method reduces the power consumption of switches by up to 37% without performance degradation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161069
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2009 - Rome, Italy Duration: 2009 May 23 → 2009 May 29

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Name	IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium

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Other	23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2009
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Rome
Period	09/5/23 → 09/5/29

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Koibuchi, M., Otsuka, T., Matsutani, H., & Amano, H. (2009). An on/off link activation method for low-power ethernet in PC clusters. In IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium [5161069] (IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium). https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161069

An on/off link activation method for low-power ethernet in PC clusters. / Koibuchi, Michihiro; Otsuka, Tomohiro; Matsutani, Hiroki et al.
IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. 2009. 5161069 (IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium).

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Koibuchi, M, Otsuka, T, Matsutani, H & Amano, H 2009, An on/off link activation method for low-power ethernet in PC clusters. in IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium., 5161069, IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2009, Rome, Italy, 09/5/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161069

Koibuchi M, Otsuka T, Matsutani H , Amano H. An on/off link activation method for low-power ethernet in PC clusters. In IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. 2009. 5161069. (IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium). doi: 10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161069

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