Title
Projecting Performance Data Over Simulation Geometry Using Sosflow And Alpine
Abstract
The performance of HPC simulation codes is often tied to their simulated domains; e.g., properties of the input decks, boundaries of the underlying meshes, and parallel decomposition of the simulation space. A variety of research efforts have demonstrated the utility of projecting performance data onto the simulation geometry to enable analysis of these kinds of performance problems. However, current methods to do so are largely ad-hoc and limited in terms of extensibility and scalability. Furthermore, few methods enable this projection online, resulting in large storage and processing requirements for offline analysis. We present a general, extensible, and scalable solution for in-situ (online) visualization of performance data projected onto the underlying geometry of simulation codes. Our solution employs the scalable observation system SOSflow with the in-situ visualization framework ALPINE to automatically extract simulation geometry and stream aggregated performance metrics to respective locations within the geometry at runtime. Our system decouples the resources and mechanisms to collect, aggregate, project, and visualize the resulting data, thus mitigating overhead and enabling online analysis at large scales. Furthermore, our method requires minimal user input and modification of existing code, enabling general and widespread adoption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-030-17872-7_12
PROGRAMMING AND PERFORMANCE VISUALIZATION TOOLS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
SOS, SOSflow, Alpine, HPC, Performance, Visualization, In situ
Conference
11027
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
1
0.37
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chad Wood132.09
Matthew Larsen2334.64
Alfredo Giménez3263.67
Kevin A. Huck411914.53
Cyrus Harrison5506.33
Todd Gamblin652744.56
A. D. Malony77321.98