AHEAD: A Tool for Projecting Next-Generation Hardware Enhancements on GPU-Accelerated Systems
Starting with the Titan supercomputer (at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, OLCF) in 2012, top supercomputers have Increasingly leveraged the performance of GPUs to support large-scale computational science. The current No. 1 machine, the 200 petaflop Summit system at OLCF, is a GPU-based machine. Accelerator-based architectures, however, add additional complexity due to node heterogeneity. To inform procurement decisions, supercomputing centers need the tools to quickly model the impact of changes of the node architectures on application performance. We present AHEAD, a profiling and modeling tool to quantify the impact of intra-node communication mechanism (e.g., PCI or NVLink) on application performance. Our experiments show average weighted relative errors of ~19% and ~23% for five CORAL-2 (a collaboration between multiple US Department of Energy, DOE, labs to procure Exascale systems) and 12 Rodinia benchmarks respectively, without running the applications on the target future node.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1561596
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW 2019) - Rio de Janeiro, , Brazil - 5/20/2019 8:00:00 AM-5/24/2019 4:00:00 AM
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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