Adding carbon trackers to estimate compute costs of various workflows

[nikhil153]

Hi @effigies,

I have been testing a couple of recently developed tools for tracking power consumption and subsequent carbon emissions of various compute pipelines.

1. Experiment-impact-tracker
2. CodeCarbon

These tools launch a separate python process to monitor RAPL/nvidia metrics. So far, I have tested FreeSurfer using Nipype singularity container.

Ideally, we would like to have two features. 1) Allow users to set a flag to have these tools track their workflow. 2) Allow them to set a flag to upload the tracker logs to a remote server - potentially hosted by OHBM SEA-SIG.

This will allow us to get a better estimate of carbon emissions on different hardware as well as geographical locations.

Let me know what you think. I am happy to help and contribute in any manner possible.

Thanks! Nikhil