ECOFIT: A framework to estimate energy consumption of fault tolerance protocols for HPC applications

Energy consumption and fault tolerance are two interrelated issues to address for designing future exascale systems. Fault tolerance protocols used for checkpointing have different energy consumption depending on parameters like application features, number of processes in the execution and platform characteristics. Currently, the only way to select a protocol for a given execution is to run the application and monitor the energy consumption of different fault tolerance protocols. This is needed for any variation of the execution setting. To avoid this time and energy consuming process, we propose an energy estimation framework. It relies on an energy calibration of the considered platform and a user description of the execution setting. We evaluate the accuracy of our estimations with real applications running on a real platform with energy consumption monitoring. Results show that our estimations are highly accurate and allow selecting the best fault tolerant protocol without pre-executing the application.