A Smallest-Need-First Job Scheduling Framework with Adaptive Optimization of Idle Node Counts for Energy-Efficient HPC Systems
SNF-ICON is presented, an event-driven controller combining smallest-need-first (SNF) gang scheduling, predictive wake timing, and adaptive warm-spare control that reduces average waiting time relative to the FCFS-based baseline in all six cases and remains close to at least one heuristic energy baseline in five.