Publications of Torsten Hoefler

Timo Schneider, Robert Gerstenberger, Torsten Hoefler:

Micro-Applications for Communication Data Access Patterns and MPI Datatypes

(Vol 7490, In Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 23-26, 2012. Proceedings, presented in Vienna, Austria, pages 121-131, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-33517-4, Sep. 2012)
Invited to a journal special issue on top picks from EuroMPI'12.

Abstract

Data is often communicated from different locations in application memory and is commonly serialized (copied) to send buffers or from receive buffers. MPI datatypes are a way to avoid such intermediate copies and optimize communications, however, it is often unclear which implementation and optimization choices are most useful in practice. We extracted the send/recv-buffer access pattern of a representative set of scientific applications into micro-applications that isolate their data access patterns. We also observed that the buffer-access patterns in applications can be categorized into three different groups. Our micro-applications show that up to 90\% of the total communication time can be spent with local serialization and we found significant performance discrepancies between state-of-the-art MPI implementations. Our micro-applications aim to provide a standard benchmark for MPI datatype implementations to guide optimizations similarly to SPEC CPU and the Livermore loops do for compiler optimizations.

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{mpi-ddt-benchmark,
  author={Timo Schneider and Robert Gerstenberger and Torsten Hoefler},
  title={{Micro-Applications for Communication Data Access Patterns and MPI Datatypes}},
  year={2012},
  month={Sep.},
  pages={121-131},
  volume={7490},
  booktitle={Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 23-26, 2012. Proceedings},
  location={Vienna, Austria},
  publisher={Springer},
  isbn={978-3-642-33517-4},
  source={http://www.unixer.de/~htor/publications/},
}


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