SystemBurn: Principles of Design and Operation, Release 2.0

Kuehn, Jeffery A¹  Poole, Stephen W¹  Hodson, Stephen W¹  Lothian, Josh¹  Dobson, Jonathan D¹  Reister, David B¹  Lewkow, Nicholas R¹  Glandon, Steven R¹  Peek, Jacob T¹ 

[1] ORNL

关键词: CAPACITY;    COMPUTERS;    COMPUTER CODES;    PROGRAMMING;    DESIGN;    PERFORMANCE;    STABILITY;    TESTING;    VALIDATION;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1050394
RP-ID  :  ORNL/TM-2012/385
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1050394
Others  :  Other: 400890000
Others  :  TRN: US201218%%997

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

As high performance computing technology progresses toward the progressively more extreme scales required to address critical computational problems of both national and global interest, power and cooling for these extreme scale systems is becoming a growing concern. A standardized methodology for testing system requirements under maximal system load and validating system environmental capability to meet those requirements is critical to maintaining system stability and minimizing power and cooling risks for high end data centers. Moreover, accurate testing permits the high end data center to avoid issues of under- or over-provisioning power and cooling capacity saving resources and mitigating hazards. Previous approaches to such testing have employed an ad hoc collection of tools, which have been anecdotally perceived to produce a heavy system load. In this report, we present SystemBurn, a software tool engineered to allow a system user to methodically create a maximal system load on large scale systems for the purposes of testing and validation.