Published 2003 | Version public
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Performance Analysis of Blue Gene/L Using Parallel Discrete Event Simulation

Abstract

High performance computers currently under construction, such as IBM's Blue Gene/L, consisting of large numbers (64K) of low cost processing elements with relatively small local memories (256MB) connected via relatively low bandwidth (0.375 Bytes/FLOP) low cost interconnection networks promise exceptional cost-performance for some scientific applications. Due to the large number of processing elements and adaptive routing networks in such systems, performance analysis of meaningful application kernels requires innovative methods. This paper describes a method that combines application analysis, tracing and parallel discrete event simulation to provide early performance prediction. Specifically, results of performance analysis of a Lennard-Jones Spatial (LJS) Decomposition molecular dynamics benchmark code for Blue Gene/L are given.

Additional Information

© 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. This work was performed under contract with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Contract No. B520721 (Applications Requirements Machine Model Simulator).

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Eprint ID
99199
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CaltechAUTHORS:20191009-140018524

Funding

Livermore National Laboratory
B520721

Dates

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2019-10-09
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2021-11-16
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Series Name
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Series Volume or Issue Number
2913