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SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2012

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Efficient Data Restructuring and Aggregation for IO Acceleration in PIDX

SESSION: Optimizing I/O For Analytics

EVENT TYPE: Papers

TIME: 11:30AM - 12:00PM

SESSION CHAIR: Dean Hildebrand

AUTHOR(S):Sidharth Kumar, Venkatram Vishwanath, Philip Carns, Joshua A. Levine, Robert Latham, Giorgio Scorzelli, Hemanth Kolla, Ray Grout, Jacqueline Chen, Robert Ross, Michael E. Papka, Valerio Pascucci

ROOM:355-D

ABSTRACT:
Hierarchical, multi-resolution data representations enable interactive analysis and visualization of large-scale simulations. One promising application of these techniques is to store HPC simulation output in a hierarchical Z (HZ) ordering that translates data from a Cartesian coordinate scheme to a one dimensional array ordered by locality at different resolution levels. However, when the dimensions of the simulation data are not an even power of two, parallel HZ-ordering produces sparse memory and network access patterns that inhibit I/O performance. This work presents a new technique for parallel HZ-ordering of simulation datasets that restructures simulation data into large power of two blocks to facilitate efficient I/O aggregation. We perform both weak and strong scaling experiments using the S3D combustion application on both Cray-XE6 (65536 cores) and IBM BlueGene/P (131072 cores) platforms. We demonstrate that data can be written in hierarchical, multiresolution format with performance competitive to that of native data ordering methods.

Chair/Author Details:

Dean Hildebrand (Chair) - IBM Almaden Research Center

Sidharth Kumar - University of Utah

Venkatram Vishwanath - Argonne National Laboratory

Philip Carns - Argonne National Laboratory

Joshua A. Levine - University of Utah

Robert Latham - Argonne National Laboratory

Giorgio Scorzelli - University of Utah

Hemanth Kolla - Sandia National Laboratories

Ray Grout - National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jacqueline Chen - Sandia National Laboratories

Robert Ross - Argonne National Laboratory

Michael E. Papka - Argonne National Laboratory

Valerio Pascucci - University of Utah

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Efficient Data Restructuring and Aggregation for IO Acceleration in PIDX

SESSION: Optimizing I/O For Analytics

EVENT TYPE:

TIME: 11:30AM - 12:00PM

SESSION CHAIR: Dean Hildebrand

AUTHOR(S):Sidharth Kumar, Venkatram Vishwanath, Philip Carns, Joshua A. Levine, Robert Latham, Giorgio Scorzelli, Hemanth Kolla, Ray Grout, Jacqueline Chen, Robert Ross, Michael E. Papka, Valerio Pascucci

ROOM:355-D

ABSTRACT:
Hierarchical, multi-resolution data representations enable interactive analysis and visualization of large-scale simulations. One promising application of these techniques is to store HPC simulation output in a hierarchical Z (HZ) ordering that translates data from a Cartesian coordinate scheme to a one dimensional array ordered by locality at different resolution levels. However, when the dimensions of the simulation data are not an even power of two, parallel HZ-ordering produces sparse memory and network access patterns that inhibit I/O performance. This work presents a new technique for parallel HZ-ordering of simulation datasets that restructures simulation data into large power of two blocks to facilitate efficient I/O aggregation. We perform both weak and strong scaling experiments using the S3D combustion application on both Cray-XE6 (65536 cores) and IBM BlueGene/P (131072 cores) platforms. We demonstrate that data can be written in hierarchical, multiresolution format with performance competitive to that of native data ordering methods.

Chair/Author Details:

Dean Hildebrand (Chair) - IBM Almaden Research Center

Sidharth Kumar - University of Utah

Venkatram Vishwanath - Argonne National Laboratory

Philip Carns - Argonne National Laboratory

Joshua A. Levine - University of Utah

Robert Latham - Argonne National Laboratory

Giorgio Scorzelli - University of Utah

Hemanth Kolla - Sandia National Laboratories

Ray Grout - National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jacqueline Chen - Sandia National Laboratories

Robert Ross - Argonne National Laboratory

Michael E. Papka - Argonne National Laboratory

Valerio Pascucci - University of Utah

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