Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

HPC application performance and scaling : understanding trends and future challenges with application benchmarks on past, present and future Tri-Lab computing systems.

Conference ·
OSTI ID:1021598
In this paper HPC architectural characteristics and their impact on application performance and scaling are investigated. Performance data gathered over several generations of very large HPC systems like: ASC Red Storm, ASC Purple, and a large InfiniBand cluster - Red Sky, are analyzed. As the number of cache coherent cores and number of NUMA domains at a compute node keeps increasing, we analyze their impact with a few simple benchmarks and several applications. We present bottlenecks and remedies examining production applications. We conclude with preliminary early-hardware performance data from the ASC Cielo, a petaFLOPS class future capability system.
Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
1021598
Report Number(s):
SAND2010-4912C
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Locality-Aware Parallel Process Mapping for Multi-Core HPC Systems
Conference · Fri Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2010 · OSTI ID:1024716

Using IOR to analyze the I/O Performance for HPC Platforms
Conference · Fri Jun 08 00:00:00 EDT 2007 · OSTI ID:923356

Study of interconnect errors, network congestion, and applications characteristics for throttle prediction on a large scale HPC system
Journal Article · Sun Mar 21 20:00:00 EDT 2021 · Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing · OSTI ID:1777710