Performance Characterization of a Hierarchical MPI Implementations on Large-scale Distributed-memory Platforms
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OSTI ID:1024230
- ORNL
The building blocks of emerging Petascale massively parallel processing (MPP) systems are multi-core processors with four or more cores as a single processing element and a customized network interface. The resulting memory and communication hierarchy of these platforms are now exposed to application developers and end users by creating a hierarchical or multi-core aware message-passing (MPI) programming interface and by providing a handful of runtime, tunable parameters that allows mapping and control of MPI tasks and message handling. We characterize performance of MPI communication patterns and present strategies for optimizing applications performance on Cray XT series systems that are composed of contemporary AMD processors and a proprietary network infrastructure. We highlight dependencies in its memory and network subsystems, which could influence production-level applications performance. We demonstrate that MPI micro-benchmarks could mislead an application developer or end user since these benchmarks often do not expose the interplay between memory allocation and usage in the user space, which depends on the number of tasks or cores and workload characteristics. Our studies show performance improvements compared to the default options for our target scientific benchmarks and production-level applications.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Center for Computational Sciences
- Sponsoring Organization:
- SC USDOE - Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1024230
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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