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Title: 7X performance results - final report : ASCI Red vs Red Storm.

Abstract

The goal of the 7X performance testing was to assure Sandia National Laboratories, Cray Inc., and the Department of Energy that Red Storm would achieve its performance requirements which were defined as a comparison between ASCI Red and Red Storm. Our approach was to identify one or more problems for each application in the 7X suite, run those problems at multiple processor sizes in the capability computing range, and compare the results between ASCI Red and Red Storm. The first part of this report describes the two computer systems, the applications in the 7X suite, the test problems, and the results of the performance tests on ASCI Red and Red Storm. During the course of the testing on Red Storm, we had the opportunity to run the test problems in both single-core mode and dual-core mode and the second part of this report describes those results. Finally, we reflect on lessons learned in undertaking a major head-to-head benchmark comparison.

Authors:
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  1. Cray Inc., Albuquerque, NM
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1013786
Report Number(s):
SAND2011-0068
TRN: US201111%%140
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; BENCHMARKS; COMPUTERS; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE TESTING; SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES; STORMS; TESTING

Citation Formats

Dinge, Dennis C, Davis, Michael E, Haskell, Karen H, Ballance, Robert A, Gardiner, Thomas Anthony, Stevenson, Joel O, and Noe, John P. 7X performance results - final report : ASCI Red vs Red Storm.. United States: N. p., 2011. Web. doi:10.2172/1013786.
Dinge, Dennis C, Davis, Michael E, Haskell, Karen H, Ballance, Robert A, Gardiner, Thomas Anthony, Stevenson, Joel O, & Noe, John P. 7X performance results - final report : ASCI Red vs Red Storm.. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1013786
Dinge, Dennis C, Davis, Michael E, Haskell, Karen H, Ballance, Robert A, Gardiner, Thomas Anthony, Stevenson, Joel O, and Noe, John P. 2011. "7X performance results - final report : ASCI Red vs Red Storm.". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1013786. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1013786.
@article{osti_1013786,
title = {7X performance results - final report : ASCI Red vs Red Storm.},
author = {Dinge, Dennis C and Davis, Michael E and Haskell, Karen H and Ballance, Robert A and Gardiner, Thomas Anthony and Stevenson, Joel O and Noe, John P},
abstractNote = {The goal of the 7X performance testing was to assure Sandia National Laboratories, Cray Inc., and the Department of Energy that Red Storm would achieve its performance requirements which were defined as a comparison between ASCI Red and Red Storm. Our approach was to identify one or more problems for each application in the 7X suite, run those problems at multiple processor sizes in the capability computing range, and compare the results between ASCI Red and Red Storm. The first part of this report describes the two computer systems, the applications in the 7X suite, the test problems, and the results of the performance tests on ASCI Red and Red Storm. During the course of the testing on Red Storm, we had the opportunity to run the test problems in both single-core mode and dual-core mode and the second part of this report describes those results. Finally, we reflect on lessons learned in undertaking a major head-to-head benchmark comparison.},
doi = {10.2172/1013786},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1013786}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011},
month = {Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011}
}