High-performance distributed solar computing (?): towards a grid that computes like trees (ハイパフォーマンスコンピューティング)

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Power-heat dissipation as well as the associated CO_2 emission are becoming serious bottlenecks in scaling of large supercomputers. Indeed a single day's operation of TSUBAME, the fastest supercomputer in Asia-Pacific circa 2007, incurs as much CO_2 emission as an entire Formula-1 race. Instead, the use of photovoltaic power generation is promising to minimize or eliminate the emission altogether. While the traditional methods would incur simple attachment to a power grid, and involve very little effect or merit from grid computing, we actually claim that grids and distributed power generation go hand-in-hand to create a robust and self-sustainable computing infrastructure that could scale to TSUBAME-class applications. For robust operation as a pragmatic operational infrastructure, much continuing research would be required customizing and integrating the results from P2P, autonomic computing, sensor networks, etc.
社団法人情報処理学会の論文
2007-09-09