SCHEDULE: NOV 16-22, 2013
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The Practitioner's Cookbook for Good Parallel Performance on Multi- and Many-Core Systems
SESSION: The Practitioner's Cookbook for Good Parallel Performance on Multi- and Many-Core Systems
EVENT TYPE: Tutorials
TIME: 8:30AM - 5:00PM
Presenter(s):Georg Hager, Jan Treibig, Gerhard Wellein
ROOM:404
ABSTRACT:
The advent of multi- and many-core chips has led to a further opening of the gap between peak and application performance for many scientific codes. This trend is accelerating as we move from petascale to exascale. Paradoxically, bad node-level performance helps to "efficiently" scale to massive parallelism, but at the price of increased overall time to solution. If the user cares about time to solution on any scale, optimal performance on the node level is often the key factor. Also, the potential of node-level improvements is widely underestimated, thus it is vital to understand the performance-limiting factors on modern hardware. We convey the architectural features of current processor chips, multiprocessor nodes, and accelerators, as well as the performance properties of the dominant MPI and OpenMP programming models, as far as they are relevant for the practitioner. Peculiarities like SIMD vectorization, shared vs. separate caches, bandwidth bottlenecks, and ccNUMA characteristics are introduced, and the influence of system topology and affinity on the performance of typical parallel programming constructs is demonstrated. Performance engineering is introduced as a powerful tool that helps the user assess the impact of possible code optimizations by establishing models for the interaction of the software with the hardware.
Chair/Presenter Details:
Georg Hager - Erlangen Regional Computing Center
Jan Treibig - Erlangen Regional Computing Center
Gerhard Wellein - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
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