README.md

Measure Energy of Flower FL in G5K

This project provides tools to measure the energy consumption of Flower-based federated learning (FL) experiments on the Grid'5000 (G5K) testbed. It includes scripts to manage distributed nodes, run FL experiments, and monitor energy usage.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
• Installation
• Usage
  • Step 1. Configure
  • Step 2. Reserve the Hosts in G5K
  • Step 3. Collect IP
  • Step 4. Run the Campaign or Instance
  • Step 5. Output
  • Step 6. Clean Up
• Quickstart
• Output Structure
• License

Getting Started

The repository includes an example of Flower (using TensorFlow) in the Flower_v1 directory and the source of measuring framework in Run. This example demonstrates how to use this framework to measure energy consumption.

Installation

This framework requires:

• Python 3.9.2 or higher.
• Additional dependencies listed in requirements.txt. Install them with:

  pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: requirements.txt includes TensorFlow for running the provided Flower example.