Your Performance-per-Watt Platform
30%+ Throughput Increase & 20%+ Energy Savings for HPC & AI Data Centers
Is power limiting your HPC and AI growth? EAR (Energy Aware Runtime) is a unified energy monitoring, optimization, and power management platform that addresses your data center's bottlenecks.
Proven at scale and trusted by leading institutes, our system software provides up to 20% energy savings and 30% more throughput—with over 21,562 servers and 23+ MW of power optimized across global customers like BSC, SURF, LRZ, and EDF.
- About
Unlock More Performance Per Watt
As HPC and AI workloads grow, so does their energy demand. Data centers need smarter tools to gain efficiency, not just in hardware, but in how systems run. EAR (Energy Aware Runtime) is a software that monitors, analyzes, and dynamically optimizes your infrastructure in real time. It connects workloads, servers, and cooling systems to gain energy you didn’t know you had.
Our tools and features helps you unlock stranded capacity and is designed to achieve your goals:
EAR Job & System Analytics
⇨ Power, Energy, CO2, Temperature at system and job level. ⇨ CPU and GPU Performance metrics ⇨ Hints for better resource utilization
EAR Optimizer
⇨ Reduce Electricity Bill, OPEX, TCO and CO2. ⇨ Increase Performance per Watt, up to 50% of energy gains ⇨ Report energy saved and potential energy savings
EAR Smart Power Cap
⇨ Maintain DC power/energy within a given limit. ⇨ Maximize Performance under a power limit ⇨ Eliminate power peaks
- Benefits
Turn Your Efficiency
Into a Competitive Advantage
Designed for AI factories and HPC data centers, EAR helps you:
☑️ Maximize throughput
☑️ Cut energy waste
☑️ Improve resource utilization
☑️ Get more work from existing hardware
How EAR Works
Designed for AI factories and HPC data centers, EAR helps you:
Holistic Monitoring: CPU, GPU, I/O, memory, cooling
Data Telemetry and analysis
Automatic Optimization: Up to 20% better performance per watt
Energy Hints & Manual Tuning: Reach up to a total of 50% energy savings
Smart Power Capping: Prevent overloads and power spikes
Visual Dashboards: Track energy and performance KPIs
- Customer Use Cases
Trusted by Industry Leaders
LRZ
SuperMUC-NG

Reducing peak power from 3 MW to 2 MW with minimal performance loss on one of Europe’s most efficient supercomputers.
SURF
Snellius

Partnering to explore software-driven energy efficiency for hybrid AI/HPC systems.
BSC
MareNostrum 5

Optimizing energy usage on a 314 PFlops pre-exascale system across CPU and GPU partitions.
EDF
CRONOS

Gaining visibility and control of energy use by project, code, and user across 2 MW of internal HPC compute.
- The Minds Behind EAR
Backed by Experts
EAR is a technological spin-off created jointly by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
As part of the Barcelona deep-tech ecosystem, we operate with ties to the UPC’s technology transfer and entrepreneurship divisions.
Our technology originated from years of computer science research at BSC and UPC and has been deployed on major European supercomputers.
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