Modeling the Office of Science ten year facilities plan: The PERI Architecture Tiger Team
Year: 2009
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The Performance Engineering Institute (PERI) originally proposed a tiger team activity as a mechanism to target significant effort optimizing key Office of Science applications, a model that was successfully realized with the assistance of two JOULE metric teams. However, the Office of Science requested a new focus beginning in 2008: assistance in forming its ten year facilities plan. To meet this request, PERI formed the Architecture Tiger Team, which is modeling the performance of key science applications on future architectures, with S3D, FLASH and GTC chosen as the first application targets. In this activity, we have measured the performance of these applications on current systems in order to understand their baseline performance and to ensure that our modeling activity focuses on the right versions and inputs of the applications. We have applied a variety of modeling techniques to anticipate the performance of these applications on a range of anticipated systems. While our initial findings predict that Office of Science applications will continue to perform well on future machines from major hardware vendors, we have also encountered several areas in which we must extend our modeling techniques in order to fulfill our mission accurately and completely. In addition, we anticipate that models of a wider range of applications will reveal critical differences between expected future systems, thus providing guidance for future Office of Science procurement decisions, and will enable DOE applications to exploit machines in future facilities fully.
Authors: Bronis R de Supinski, Sadaf Alam, David H Bailey, Laura Carrington, Chris Daley, Anshu Dubey, Todd Gamblin, Dan Gunter, Paul D Hovland, Heike Jagode, Karen Karavanic, Gabriel Marin, John Mellor-Crummey, Shirley Moore, Boyana Norris, Leonid Oliker, Catherine Olschanowsky, Philip C Roth, Martin Schulz, Sameer Shende, Allan Snavely, Wyatt Spear, Mustafa Tikir, Jeff Vetter, Pat Worley, Nicholas Wright
Institutions: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Portland State University, Rice University, University of Oregon
Language: English
Subfield: Hardware and Architecture
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Office of Science
OpenAlex ID: W2019435167