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Title: MiniApps derived from production HPC applications using multiple programing models

Journal Article · · International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
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  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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Here, we have developed a set of reduced, proxy applications (“MiniApps”) based on large-scale application codes supported at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). The MiniApps are designed to encapsulate the details of the most important (i.e. the most time-consuming and/or unique) facets of the applications that run in production mode on the OLCF. In each case, we have produced or plan to produce individual versions of the MiniApps using different specific programing models (e.g., OpenACC, CUDA, OpenMP). We describe some of our initial observations regarding these different implementations along with estimates of how closely the MiniApps track the actual performance characteristics (in particular, the overall scalability) of the large-scale applications from which they are derived.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1461070
Journal Information:
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Vol. 32, Issue 4; ISSN 1094-3420
Publisher:
SAGECopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 10 works
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