[Beowulf] Power draw of cluster nodes under heavy load

[Jeff White]

Power draw will vary greatly depending on many factors.  Where I am at 
we currently have 16 racks of HPC equipment (compute nodes, storage, 
network gear, etc.) using about 140kVA but can use up to 160 kVA.  A 
single rack with 26 compute nodes each with 64 cores worth of AMD 6276 
(Supermicro boxes) is using about 18 kW across the PDUs, 3 phase at 240 
volts, with most of the nodes at 100% CPU usage.

Jeff White - GNU+Linux Systems Administrator
University of Pittsburgh - CSSD

On 07/28/2014 10:51 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> Beowulfers,
>
> Are any of you monitoring the power draw on your clusters? If so, can
> any of you provide me with some statistics on your power draw under
> heavy load? Ideally, I'm looking for the power load for a worst-case
> scenario, such as running HPL, on a per-rack basis. If you can provide
> me with the power draw and a description of the hardware, that would be
> great.
>
> I have some numbers from a friend who lurks on this list, but the more
> data points I have, the better I can justify my power requirements for a
> new cluster purchase I'm working on.
>