Accurate and Complete Hardware Profiling for OpenMP

Richard Neill, Andi Drebes, Antoniu Pop

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Abstract

Analyzing the behavior of OpenMP programs and their interaction with the hardware is essential for locating performance bottlenecks and identifying performance optimization opportunities. However, current architectures only provide a small number of dedicated registers to quantify hardware events, which strongly limits the scope of performance analyses. Hardware event multiplexing can help cover more events, but incurs a significant loss of accuracy and introduces overheads that change the behavior of program execution significantly. In this paper, we present an implementation of our technique for building a unique, coherent profile that contains all available hardware events from multiple executions of the same OpenMP program, each monitoring only a subset of the available hardware events. Reconciliation of the execution profiles relies on a new labeling scheme for OpenMP that uniquely identifies each dynamic unit of work across executions under dynamic scheduling across processing units. We show that our approach yields significantly better accuracy and lower monitoring overhead per execution than hardware event multiplexing.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 13th International Workshop on OpenMP
Subtitle of host publicationScaling OpenMP for Exascale Performance and Portability
PublisherSpringer Nature
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 26 May 2017
Event13th International Workshop on OpenMP - Wang Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, United States
Duration: 18 Sept 201722 Sept 2017
Conference number: 13
https://you.stonybrook.edu/iwomp2017/

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

Conference

Conference13th International Workshop on OpenMP
Abbreviated titleIWOMP
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityStony Brook
Period18/09/1722/09/17
Internet address

Keywords

  • Performance analysis
  • Hardware events
  • Performance monitoring counters
  • OpenMP profiling

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