Tools for Simulation and Benchmark Generation at Exascale

Mahesh Lagadapati, Frank Mueller () and Christian Engelmann ()
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Mahesh Lagadapati: North Carolina State University, Department of Computer Science
Frank Mueller: North Carolina State University, Department of Computer Science
Christian Engelmann: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Chapter Chapter 2 in Tools for High Performance Computing 2013, 2014, pp 19-24 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The path to exascale high-performance computing (HPC) poses several challenges related to power, performance, resilience, productivity, programmability, data movement, and data management. Investigating the performance of parallel applications at scale on future architectures and the performance impact of different architecture choices is an important component of HPC hardware/software co-design. Simulations using models of future HPC systems and communication traces from applications running on existing HPC systems can offer an insight into the performance of future architectures. This work targets technology developed for scalable application tracing of communication events and memory profiles, but can be extended to other areas, such as I/O, control flow, and data flow. It further focuses on extreme-scale simulation of millions of Message Passing Interface (MPI) ranks using a lightweight parallel discrete event simulation (PDES) toolkit for performance evaluation. Instead of simply replaying a trace within a simulation, the approach is to generate a benchmark from it and to run this benchmark within a simulation using models to reflect the performance characteristics of future-generation HPC systems. This provides a number of benefits, such as eliminating the data intensive trace replay and enabling simulations at different scales. The presented work utilizes the ScalaTrace tool to generate scalable trace files, the ScalaBenchGen tool to generate the benchmark, and the xSim tool to run the benchmark within a simulation.

Keywords: Message Passing Interface; Trace File; Benchmark Generator; Delta Time; Message Passing Interface Application (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08144-1_2

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