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SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2012

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Novel Views of Performance Data to Analyze Large-Scale Adaptive Applications

SESSION: Auto-Diagnosis of Correctness and Performance Issues

EVENT TYPE: Papers

TIME: 4:30PM - 5:00PM

SESSION CHAIR: Kenjiro Taura

AUTHOR(S):Abhinav Bhatele, Todd Gamblin, Katherine E. Isaacs, Brian T. N. Gunney, Martin Schulz, Peer-Timo Bremer, Bernd Hamann

ROOM:255-BC

ABSTRACT:
Performance analysis of parallel scientific codes is becoming increasingly difficult due to the rapidly growing complexity of applications and architectures. Existing tools fall short in providing intuitive views that facilitate the process of performance debugging and tuning. In this paper, we extend recent ideas of projecting and visualizing performance data for faster, more intuitive analysis of applications. We collect detailed per-level and per-phase measurements in a dynamically load-balanced, structured AMR library and relate the information back to the application's communication structure. We show how our projections and visualizations lead to a simple diagnosis of and mitigation strategy for a previously elusive scaling bottleneck in the library that is hard to detect using conventional tools. Our new insights have resulted in a 22% performance improvement for a 65,536-core run on an IBM Blue Gene/P system.

Chair/Author Details:

Kenjiro Taura (Chair) - University of Tokyo

Abhinav Bhatele - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Todd Gamblin - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Katherine E. Isaacs - University of California, Davis

Brian T. N. Gunney - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Martin Schulz - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Peer-Timo Bremer - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Bernd Hamann - University of California, Davis

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Novel Views of Performance Data to Analyze Large-Scale Adaptive Applications

SESSION: Auto-Diagnosis of Correctness and Performance Issues

EVENT TYPE:

TIME: 4:30PM - 5:00PM

SESSION CHAIR: Kenjiro Taura

AUTHOR(S):Abhinav Bhatele, Todd Gamblin, Katherine E. Isaacs, Brian T. N. Gunney, Martin Schulz, Peer-Timo Bremer, Bernd Hamann

ROOM:255-BC

ABSTRACT:
Performance analysis of parallel scientific codes is becoming increasingly difficult due to the rapidly growing complexity of applications and architectures. Existing tools fall short in providing intuitive views that facilitate the process of performance debugging and tuning. In this paper, we extend recent ideas of projecting and visualizing performance data for faster, more intuitive analysis of applications. We collect detailed per-level and per-phase measurements in a dynamically load-balanced, structured AMR library and relate the information back to the application's communication structure. We show how our projections and visualizations lead to a simple diagnosis of and mitigation strategy for a previously elusive scaling bottleneck in the library that is hard to detect using conventional tools. Our new insights have resulted in a 22% performance improvement for a 65,536-core run on an IBM Blue Gene/P system.

Chair/Author Details:

Kenjiro Taura (Chair) - University of Tokyo

Abhinav Bhatele - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Todd Gamblin - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Katherine E. Isaacs - University of California, Davis

Brian T. N. Gunney - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Martin Schulz - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Peer-Timo Bremer - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Bernd Hamann - University of California, Davis

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