Paper Info
Title
Effective Performance Measurement at Petascale Using IPM
Abstract
As supercomputers are being built from an ever increasing number of processing elements, the effort required to achieve a substantial fraction of the system peak performance is continuously growing. Tools are needed that give developers and computing center staff holistic indicators about the resource consumption of applications and potential performance pitfalls at scale. To use the full potential of a supercomputer today, applications must incorporate multilevel parallelism (threading and message passing) and carefully orchestrate file I/O. As a consequence, performance tools must also be able to monitor these system components in an integrated way and at the full machine scales. We present IPM, a modularized monitoring approach for MPI, Open MP, file I/O, and other event sources. We describe its implementation design principles, which are targeted for efficiency and minimal application perturbation, and present an application study of using IPM at scale.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICPADS.2010.16
Parallel and Distributed Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
performance tool,computing center staff holistic,open mp,full potential,system peak performance,potential performance pitfall,effective performance measurement,full machine scale,minimal application perturbation,application study,system component,instruction sets,radiation detectors,supercomputer,multi threading,petascale,message passing,threading,mpi
Resource consumption,Design elements and principles,Multithreading,Supercomputer,Computer science,Instruction set,Real-time computing,Performance measurement,Petascale computing,Message passing,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1521-9097 E-ISBN : 978-0-7695-4307-9
978-0-7695-4307-9
24
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.01
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karl Fuerlinger1473.80
Nicholas J. Wright240827.79
Skinner, David3242.01