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In our previous works, a parallel application dedicated to the numerical modeling of alloy solidification was developed and tested using various programming environments on hybrid shared-memory platforms with multicore CPUs and manycore Intel Xeon Phi accelerators. While this solution allows obtaining a reasonable good performance in the case of the static intensity of computations, the performance results achieved for the dynamic intensity of computations indicates pretty large room for further optimizations.
In this work, we focus on improving the overall performance of the application with the dynamic computational intensity. For this aim, we propose to modify the application code significantly using the loop fusion technique. The proposed method permits us to execute all kernels in a single nested loop, as well as reduce the number of conditional operators performed within a single time step. As a result, the proposed optimizations allows increasing the application performance for all tested configurations of computing resources. The highest performance gain is achieved for a single Intel Xeon SP CPU, where the new code yields the speedup of up to 1.78 times against the original version.
The developed method is vital for further optimizations of the application performance. It allows introducing an algorithm for the dynamic workload prediction and load balancing in successive time steps of simulation. In this work, we propose the workload prediction algorithm with 1D computational map.
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This research was conducted with the financial support of the National Science Centre (Poland) under grants no. UMO-2017/26/D/ST6/00687. The authors are grateful to: (i) Intel Technology Poland and (ii) Czestochowa University of Technology (MICLAB project no. POIG.02.03.00.24-093/13) for granting access to HPC platforms.
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Halbiniak, K., Szustak, L., Kulawik, A., Gepner, P. (2020). Performance Optimizations for Parallel Modeling of Solidification with Dynamic Intensity of Computation. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Deelman, E., Dongarra, J., Karczewski, K. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12043. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43229-4_32
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