Introduction

The Power API is a community-led specification for an power monitoring and control API that supports small-scale to extreme-scale systems.

Get a copy

Version 1.0 of the specification is available here: Community Specification Version 1.0

EEHPCWG

The Power API is associated with the Energy Efficient High Performance Working Group effort. You can find the EEHPCWG website at: https://eehpcwg.llnl.gov

Read More

An overview of the API and its reference implementation was published in IEEE Computer magazine in October 2016 entitled Standardizing Power Monitoring and Control at Exascale.

Cite Power API in Your Work

If you are planning to modify or use the Power API in a published scientific paper or technical report, please use the following citation for the Power API: R. E. Grant, M. Levenhagen, S. L. Olivier, D. DeBonis, K. T. Pedretti and J. H. Laros III, “Standardizing Power Monitoring and Control at Exascale,” in Computer, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 38-46, Oct. 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2016.308 BibTeX