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Clock Agreement Among Parallel Supercomputer Nodes
Abstract
This dataset presents measurements that quantify the clock synchronization time-agreement characteristics among several high performance computers including the current world's most powerful machine for open science, the U.S. Department of Energy's Titan machine sited at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. These ultra-fast machines derive much of their computational capability from extreme node counts (over 18000 nodes in the case of the Titan machine). Time-agreement is commonly utilized by parallel programming applications and tools, distributed programming application and tools, and system software. Our time-agreement measurements detail the degree of time variance between nodes and how that variance changes over time. The dataset includes empirical measurements and the accompanying spreadsheets.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Collaborations:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
- Subject:
- 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
- Keywords:
- Clock Agreement; Clock Synchronization; Time Service; Supercomputing; Empirical Measurements
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1130048
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.11578/1130048
Citation Formats
Jones, Terry R., and Koenig, Gregory A. Clock Agreement Among Parallel Supercomputer Nodes. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.11578/1130048.
Jones, Terry R., & Koenig, Gregory A. Clock Agreement Among Parallel Supercomputer Nodes. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.11578/1130048
Jones, Terry R., and Koenig, Gregory A. 2014.
"Clock Agreement Among Parallel Supercomputer Nodes". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.11578/1130048. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1130048. Pub date:Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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abstractNote = {This dataset presents measurements that quantify the clock synchronization time-agreement characteristics among several high performance computers including the current world's most powerful machine for open science, the U.S. Department of Energy's Titan machine sited at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. These ultra-fast machines derive much of their computational capability from extreme node counts (over 18000 nodes in the case of the Titan machine). Time-agreement is commonly utilized by parallel programming applications and tools, distributed programming application and tools, and system software. Our time-agreement measurements detail the degree of time variance between nodes and how that variance changes over time. The dataset includes empirical measurements and the accompanying spreadsheets.},
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