TY  - JOUR
AU  - Böhme, David
AU  - Geimer, Markus
AU  - Arnold, Lukas
AU  - Voigtlaender, Felix
AU  - Wolf, Felix
TI  - Identifying the Root Causes of Wait States in Large-Scale Parallel Applications
JO  - ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing
VL  - 3
IS  - 2
SN  - 2374-0353
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - acm Association for Computing Machinery
M1  - FZJ-2016-04097
SP  - 11
PY  - 2016
AB  - Driven by growing application requirements and accelerated by current trends in microprocessor design, the number of processor cores on modern supercomputers is increasing from generation to generation. However, load or communication imbalance prevents many codes from taking advantage of the available parallelism, as delays of single processes may spread wait states across the entire machine. Moreover, when employing complex point-to-point communication patterns, wait states may propagate along far-reaching cause-effect chains that are hard to track manually and that complicate an assessment of the actual costs of an imbalance. Building on earlier work by Meira Jr. et al., we present a scalable approach that identifies program wait states and attributes their costs in terms of resource waste to their original cause. By replaying event traces in parallel both forward and backward, we can identify the processes and call paths responsible for the most severe imbalances even for runs with hundreds of thousands of processes.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
DO  - DOI:10.1145/2934661
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/811713
ER  -