FY20 Proxy App Suite Release: Report for ECP Proxy App Project Milestone ADCD-504-10

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1860724· OSTI ID:1860724

Richards, David F. ^[1]; Alexeev, Yuri ^[2]; Andrade, Xavier ^[1]; Balakrishnan, Ramesh ^[2]; Finkel, Hal ^[2]; Fletcher, Graham ^[2]; Ibrahim, Cameron ^[2]; Jiang, Wei ^[2]; Junghans, Christoph ^[3]; Logan, Jeremy ^[4]; Lund, Amanda ^[2]; Lykov, Danylo ^[2]; Pavel, Robert ^[3]; Ramakrishnaiah, Vinay ^[3]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
3. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Version 4.0 of the ECP Proxy App Suite is practically unchanged from the previous release. The current set of proxies has proven useful for many aspects of benchmarking and co-design and we see little reason to alter the suite. Although there have been few changes to the ECP suite, the team has been hard at work in other areas. In the area of Machine Learning (ML) we have now created a separate proxy suite dedicated to this scientific applications of ML. The suite includes: miniGAN (Generative Adversarial Networks), miniRL (Reinforcement Learning), CRADL (inline inference), Cosmoflow-Benchmark (Convolutional Neural Network), and MLPerf-DeepCam (Climate Segmentation Benchmark). Section 3 contains more information about these proxies as well as the principles that are guiding the development of the suite. We have surveyed available proxies for several application domains including Computational Fluid Dynamics, Quantum Chemistry, Quantum Computing Simulation, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo Transport, and Density Functional Theory to identify gaps in proxy coverage. Several new proxy apps are either already available or will be released soon to fill these gaps. Section 4 provides full details. Finally, section 5 reports on our continued collaboration with the ECP Continuous Integration (CI) effort to use proxy apps to help identify problems and roadblocks to cross-lab CI. We have also assisted the El Capitan Center of Excellence (COE) to stand up a CI system that will be used to test releases of HPE and AMD software stacks. We hope that the COE effort can serve as a model for ECP by showing how the Proxy App Team can work with AD and ST teams identify critical features, kernels, patterns, etc. and incorporate them into a CI system that will help ensure that Frontier and Aurora will provide those needed capabilities.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• Contributing Organization: The ECP Proxy App Team
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-07NA27344; NA0003525; AC05-00OR22725; 89233218CNA000001; AC02-06CH11357; AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1860724
• Report Number(s): LLNL-TR-815174; 1024281
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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