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OpenSHMEM 2018: OpenSHMEM and Related Technologies. OpenSHMEM in the Era of Extreme Heterogeneity pp 22–40Cite as

Design and Optimization of OpenSHMEM 1.4 for the Intel® Omni-Path Fabric 100 Series

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Abstract

The OpenSHMEM 1.4 specification recently introduced support for multithreaded hybrid programming and a new communication management API. Together, these features enable users to manage communications performed by multiple threads within an OpenSHMEM process and to overlap communication and computation to hide costly latencies. In order to realize these benefits, OpenSHMEM implementations must efficiently map this broad new space of usage models to the underlying fabric. This paper presents an implementation of OpenSHMEM 1.4 for the Intel®Omni-Path Fabric 100 Series. The OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) libfabric is used as the low-level fabric API; we identify strategies for effectively managing shared transmission resources using libfabric, as well as for managing the communication requirements of the Omni-Path fabric. We study the performance of our implementation, identify design tradeoffs that are influenced by application behavior, and explore application-level optimizations that can be used to achieve the best performance.

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    Benchmark results were obtained prior to implementation of recent software patches and firmware updates intended to address exploits referred to as “Spectre” and “Meltdown”. Implementation of these updates may make these results inapplicable to your device or system.

    Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel® microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark (see footnote 1), are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products.

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Ozog, D., Rahman, M.Wu., Seager, K., Dinan, J. (2019). Design and Optimization of OpenSHMEM 1.4 for the Intel® Omni-Path Fabric 100 Series. In: Pophale, S., Imam, N., Aderholdt, F., Gorentla Venkata, M. (eds) OpenSHMEM and Related Technologies. OpenSHMEM in the Era of Extreme Heterogeneity. OpenSHMEM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11283. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04918-8_2

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