High Performance Computing: ISC High Performance 2016 International Workshops, ExaComm, E-MuCoCoS, HPC-IODC, IXPUG, IWOPH, P^3MA, VHPC, WOPSSS, Frankfurt, Germany, June 19–23, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

✍ Scribed by Michela Taufer, Bernd Mohr, Julian M. Kunkel (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 710
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9945
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes revised selected papers from 7 workshops that were held in conjunction with the ISC High Performance 2016 conference in Frankfurt, Germany, in June 2016.
The 45 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. They stem from the following workshops:
Workshop on Exascale Multi/Many Core Computing Systems, E-MuCoCoS; Second International Workshop on Communication Architectures at Extreme Scale, ExaComm; HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop, HPC-IODC; International Workshop on OpenPOWER for HPC, IWOPH; Workshop on the Application Performance on Intel Xeon Phi – Being Prepared for KNL and Beyond, IXPUG; Workshop on Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems, WOPSSS; and International Workshop on Performance Portable Programming Models for Accelerators, P3MA.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Front Matter....Pages 1-4
Behavioral Emulation for Scalable Design-Space Exploration of Algorithms and Architectures....Pages 5-17
Closing the Performance Gap with Modern C++....Pages 18-31
Energy Efficient Runtime Framework for Exascale Systems....Pages 32-44
Extreme-Scale In Situ Visualization of Turbulent Flows on IBM Blue Gene/Q JUQUEEN....Pages 45-55
The EPiGRAM Project: Preparing Parallel Programming Models for Exascale....Pages 56-68
Work Distribution of Data-Parallel Applications on Heterogeneous Systems....Pages 69-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Reducing Manipulation Overhead of Remote Data-Structure by Controlling Remote Memory Access Order....Pages 85-97
SONAR: Automated Communication Characterization for HPC Applications....Pages 98-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-120
An Overview of the Sirocco Parallel Storage System....Pages 121-129
Analyzing Data Properties Using Statistical Sampling Techniques – Illustrated on Scientific File Formats and Compression Features....Pages 130-141
Delta: Data Reduction for Integrated Application Workflows and Data Storage....Pages 142-152
Investigating Read Performance of Python and NetCDF When Using HPC Parallel Filesystems....Pages 153-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-172
Early Application Performance at the Hartree Centre with the OpenPOWER Architecture....Pages 173-187
Early Experiences Porting the NAMD and VMD Molecular Simulation and Analysis Software to GPU-Accelerated OpenPOWER Platforms....Pages 188-206
Exploring Energy Efficiency for GPU-Accelerated POWER Servers....Pages 207-227
First Experiences with ab initio Molecular Dynamics on OpenPOWER: The Case of CPMD....Pages 228-234
High Performance Computing on the IBM Power8 Platform....Pages 235-254
Measuring and Managing Energy in OpenPOWER....Pages 255-267
Performance Analysis of Spark/GraphX on POWER8 Cluster....Pages 268-285
Performance of the 3D Combustion Simulation Code RECOM®-AIOLOS on IBM® POWER8® Architecture....Pages 286-292
Front Matter....Pages 169-172
Performance-Portable Many-Core Plasma Simulations: Porting PIConGPU to OpenPower and Beyond....Pages 293-301
Front Matter....Pages 303-306
A Comparative Study of Application Performance and Scalability on the Intel Knights Landing Processor....Pages 307-318
Application Suitability Assessment for Many-Core Targets....Pages 319-338
Applying the Roofline Performance Model to the Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing Processor....Pages 339-353
Dynamic SIMD Vector Lane Scheduling....Pages 354-365
High Performance Optimizations for Nuclear Physics Code MFDn on KNL....Pages 366-377
Optimization of the Sparse Matrix-Vector Products of an IDR Krylov Iterative Solver in EMGeo for the Intel KNL Manycore Processor....Pages 378-389
Optimizing a Multiple Right-Hand Side Dslash Kernel for Intel Knights Corner....Pages 390-401
Optimizing Excited-State Electronic-Structure Codes for Intel Knights Landing: A Case Study on the BerkeleyGW Software....Pages 402-414
Optimizing Wilson-Dirac Operator and Linear Solvers for Intel® KNL....Pages 415-427
Front Matter....Pages 429-432
A C++ Programming Model for Heterogeneous System Architecture....Pages 433-450
Battling Memory Requirements of Array Programming Through Streaming....Pages 451-469
From Describing to Prescribing Parallelism: Translating the SPEC ACCEL OpenACC Suite to OpenMP Target Directives....Pages 470-488
GPU-STREAM v2.0: Benchmarking the Achievable Memory Bandwidth of Many-Core Processors Across Diverse Parallel Programming Models....Pages 489-507
Porting the MPI Parallelized LES Model PALM to Multi-GPU Systems – An Experience Report....Pages 508-523
Software Cost Analysis of GPU-Accelerated Aeroacoustics Simulations in C++ with OpenACC....Pages 524-543
Task-Based Cholesky Decomposition on Knights Corner Using OpenMP....Pages 544-562
Using C++ AMP to Accelerate HPC Applications on Multiple Platforms....Pages 563-576
Front Matter....Pages 577-577
Analysis of Memory Performance: Mixed Rank Performance Across Microarchitectures....Pages 579-590
Considering I/O Processing in CloudSim for Performance and Energy Evaluation....Pages 591-603
Front Matter....Pages 577-577
Early Evaluation of the “Infinite Memory Engine” Burst Buffer Solution....Pages 604-615
Motivation and Implementation of a Dynamic Remote Storage System for I/O Demanding HPC Applications....Pages 616-626
Parallel I/O Architecture Modelling Based on File System Counters....Pages 627-637
Scaling Spark on Lustre....Pages 638-648
Front Matter....Pages 649-659
Accelerating Application Migration in HPC....Pages 661-661
Migrating LinuX Containers Using CRIU....Pages 663-673
Providing Security in Container-Based HPC Runtime Environments....Pages 674-684
Back Matter....Pages 685-695
....Pages 697-699

✦ Subjects

System Performance and Evaluation;Performance and Reliability;Processor Architectures;Theory of Computation;Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)