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Title: Performance and Scalability Analysis of Cray X1 Vectorization and Multistreaming Optimization

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OSTI ID:989552

Cray X1 Fortran and C/C++ compilers provide a number of loop transformations, notably vectorization and multistreaming, in order to exploit the multistreaming processor (MSP) hardware resources and its high memory bandwidth. A Cray X1 node is composed of four MSPs, which in turn are composed of four single streaming processors (SSP). Each SSP contains a superscalar processing unit and two vector processing units. Compiler vectorization provides loop level parallelization and uses the vector processing hardware. Multistreaming code generation by the compiler permits execution across the SSPs of an MSP on a block of code. In this paper, we analyze overall impact of loop-level compiler optimization on a scientific application called Parallel Ocean Program (POP). POP has been extensively optimized for X1 by instrumenting the code using X1 compiler directives. We compare and contrast automatic and manual optimization schemes available on X1 and analyze their impact on the code performance and scalability. Our results show that the addition of compiler directives increases the average vector length, thereby improving the single node performance significantly. However, this code scales at a slower rate as the local workload volume decreases and the communication costs increase.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
989552
Resource Relation:
Conference: International Conference on Computational Science 2005, Atlanta, GA, USA, 20050522, 20050525
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English