Effective use of the PGAS Paradigm: Driving Transformations and Self-Adaptive Behavior in DASH-Applications
Autor: | Idrees, Kamran, Fuchs, Tobias, Glass, Colin W. |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
Popis: | DASH is a library of distributed data structures and algorithms designed for running the applications on modern HPC architectures, composed of hierarchical network interconnections and stratified memory. DASH implements a PGAS (partitioned global address space) model in the form of C++ templates, built on top of DART -- a run-time system with an abstracted tier above existing one-sided communication libraries. In order to facilitate the application development process for exploiting the hierarchical organization of HPC machines, DART allows to reorder the placement of the computational units. In this paper we present an automatic, hierarchical units mapping technique (using a similar approach to the Hilbert curve transformation) to reorder the placement of DART units on the Cray XC40 machine Hazel Hen at HLRS. To evaluate the performance of new units mapping which takes into the account the topology of allocated compute nodes, we perform latency benchmark for a 3D stencil code. The technique of units mapping is generic and can be be adopted in other DART communication substrates and on other hardware platforms. Furthermore, high--level features of DASH are presented, enabling more complex automatic transformations and optimizations in the future. Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, Program Transformation for Programmability in Heterogeneous Architectures (PROHA) Workshop, held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) 2016 |
Databáze: | arXiv |
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