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SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2012

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Application Restructuring for Vectorization and Parallelization: A Case Study

SESSION: Research Poster Reception

EVENT TYPE: Posters and Electronic Posters

TIME: 5:15PM - 7:00PM

SESSION CHAIR: Torsten Hoefler

AUTHOR(S):Karthik Raj Saanthalingam, David Hudak, John Eisenlohr, P. Sadayappan

ROOM:East Entrance

ABSTRACT:
Clock rates remain flat while transistor density increases, so microprocessor designers are providing more parallelism on a chip by increasing vector length and core count. For example, the Intel Westmere architecture has a vector length of four floats (128 bits) and six cores compared to eight floats (256 bits) and eight cores on the Intel Sandy Bridge. Applications must get good vector and shared-memory performance in order to leverage these hardware advances. Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) is analogous to traditional molecular dynamics techniques applied to mesoscale simulations. We analyzed and restructured an existing DPD implementation to improve vector and OpenMP performance for the Intel Xeon and MIC architectures. We designed an efficient partitioned global address space (PGAS) implementation using the Global Arrays Toolkit using this experience. We present performance results on representative architectures.

Chair/Author Details:

Torsten Hoefler (Chair) - ETH Zurich

Karthik Raj Saanthalingam - Ohio Supercomputer Center

David Hudak - Ohio Supercomputer Center

John Eisenlohr - Ohio Supercomputer Center

P. Sadayappan - Ohio State University

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Application Restructuring for Vectorization and Parallelization: A Case Study

SESSION: Research Poster Reception

EVENT TYPE:

TIME: 5:15PM - 7:00PM

SESSION CHAIR: Torsten Hoefler

AUTHOR(S):Karthik Raj Saanthalingam, David Hudak, John Eisenlohr, P. Sadayappan

ROOM:East Entrance

ABSTRACT:
Clock rates remain flat while transistor density increases, so microprocessor designers are providing more parallelism on a chip by increasing vector length and core count. For example, the Intel Westmere architecture has a vector length of four floats (128 bits) and six cores compared to eight floats (256 bits) and eight cores on the Intel Sandy Bridge. Applications must get good vector and shared-memory performance in order to leverage these hardware advances. Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) is analogous to traditional molecular dynamics techniques applied to mesoscale simulations. We analyzed and restructured an existing DPD implementation to improve vector and OpenMP performance for the Intel Xeon and MIC architectures. We designed an efficient partitioned global address space (PGAS) implementation using the Global Arrays Toolkit using this experience. We present performance results on representative architectures.

Chair/Author Details:

Torsten Hoefler (Chair) - ETH Zurich

Karthik Raj Saanthalingam - Ohio Supercomputer Center

David Hudak - Ohio Supercomputer Center

John Eisenlohr - Ohio Supercomputer Center

P. Sadayappan - Ohio State University

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