Automatic MPI-IO tuning with the periscope tuning framework

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

2 Scopus citations

Abstract

The performance of I/O operations on HPC systems is a bottleneck in many parallel applications. The MPI Forum defined the MPI-IO programming interface for parallel I/O as part of the MPI-2 standard. With MPIIO, parallel applications can overcome the performance and portability limitations of existing parallel I/O interfaces. MPIIO performance analysis and tuning are important for parallel software development. Some analysis tools have been designed to help developers understand MPI-IO performance. However, there are no recommendations given by those tools on how to tune the MPI-IO code to obtain better performance. In this paper, we introduce the design of an MPI-IO automatic tuner. The automatic tuner relies on the Periscope Tuning Framework (PTF) for performance data collection and for passing hints to the MPI-IO library. The goal is to produce tuning recommendations that will help applications achieve efficient execution of MPI-IO operations in production runs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE 28th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2014
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages352-360
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9780769552088
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Nov 2014
Event28th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2014 - Phoenix, United States
Duration: 19 May 201423 May 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE 28th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2014

Conference

Conference28th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix
Period19/05/1423/05/14

Keywords

  • Automatic tuning
  • MPI-IO
  • MPI-IO hints
  • PTF

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Automatic MPI-IO tuning with the periscope tuning framework'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this