Early application performance at the hartree centre with the openPOWER architecture

Mike Ashworth; Jianping Meng; Vedran Novakovic; Sersi Siso

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46079-6_13

Early application performance at the hartree centre with the openPOWER architecture

Mike Ashworth^*, Jianping Meng, Vedran Novakovic, Sersi Siso

^*Corresponding author for this work

Advanced Processor Technology

S T F C Daresbury Laboratory

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Abstract

The Hartree Centre has been established as a UK focus for industrial engagement. STFC has acquired a new IBM system based on the Open- POWER architecture, comprising 32 nodes with POWER8 CPUs and NVIDIA Kepler K80 GPUs. We report early evaluation of the system using some real applications based on the Lattice Boltzmann Method, Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence and using FFTs. No optimisation has been carried out yet, but results are encouraging with performance comparable or better on a per core basis to Intel IvyBridge CPUs. Use of the GPUs for suitable algorithms such as Lattice Boltzmann kernels and for FFTs provides further performance enhancements.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	High Performance Computing - ISC High Performance 2016 International Workshops ExaComm, E-MuCoCoS, HPC-IODC, IXPUG, IWOPH, P^3MA, VHPC, WOPSSS, Revised Selected
Editors	Bernd Mohr, Julian M. Kunkel, Michela Taufer
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	173-187
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	9783319460789
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46079-6_13
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2016
Event	International Workshops on High Performance Computing, ISC High Performance 2016 and Workshop on 2nd International Workshop on Communication Architectures at Extreme Scale, ExaComm 2016, Workshop on Exascale Multi/Many Core Computing Systems, E-MuCoCoS 2016, HPC I/O in the Data Center, HPC-IODC 2016, Application Performance on Intel Xeon Phi – Being Prepared for KNL and Beyond, IXPUG 2016, International Workshop on OpenPOWER for HPC, IWOPH 2016, International Workshop on Performance Portable Programming Models for Accelerators, P^3MA 2016, Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing, VHPC 2016, Workshop on Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems, WOPSSS 2016 - Frankfurt, Germany Duration: 19 Jun 2016 → 23 Jun 2016

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	9945 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	International Workshops on High Performance Computing, ISC High Performance 2016 and Workshop on 2nd International Workshop on Communication Architectures at Extreme Scale, ExaComm 2016, Workshop on Exascale Multi/Many Core Computing Systems, E-MuCoCoS 2016, HPC I/O in the Data Center, HPC-IODC 2016, Application Performance on Intel Xeon Phi – Being Prepared for KNL and Beyond, IXPUG 2016, International Workshop on OpenPOWER for HPC, IWOPH 2016, International Workshop on Performance Portable Programming Models for Accelerators, P^3MA 2016, Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing, VHPC 2016, Workshop on Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems, WOPSSS 2016
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Frankfurt
Period	19/06/16 → 23/06/16

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Ashworth, M., Meng, J., Novakovic, V., & Siso, S. (2016). Early application performance at the hartree centre with the openPOWER architecture. In B. Mohr, J. M. Kunkel, & M. Taufer (Eds.), High Performance Computing - ISC High Performance 2016 International Workshops ExaComm, E-MuCoCoS, HPC-IODC, IXPUG, IWOPH, P^3MA, VHPC, WOPSSS, Revised Selected (pp. 173-187). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9945 LNCS). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46079-6_13

Ashworth, Mike ; Meng, Jianping ; Novakovic, Vedran et al. / Early application performance at the hartree centre with the openPOWER architecture. High Performance Computing - ISC High Performance 2016 International Workshops ExaComm, E-MuCoCoS, HPC-IODC, IXPUG, IWOPH, P^3MA, VHPC, WOPSSS, Revised Selected. editor / Bernd Mohr ; Julian M. Kunkel ; Michela Taufer. Springer Nature, 2016. pp. 173-187 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Ashworth, M, Meng, J, Novakovic, V & Siso, S 2016, Early application performance at the hartree centre with the openPOWER architecture. in B Mohr, JM Kunkel & M Taufer (eds), High Performance Computing - ISC High Performance 2016 International Workshops ExaComm, E-MuCoCoS, HPC-IODC, IXPUG, IWOPH, P^3MA, VHPC, WOPSSS, Revised Selected. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 9945 LNCS, Springer Nature, pp. 173-187, International Workshops on High Performance Computing, ISC High Performance 2016 and Workshop on 2nd International Workshop on Communication Architectures at Extreme Scale, ExaComm 2016, Workshop on Exascale Multi/Many Core Computing Systems, E-MuCoCoS 2016, HPC I/O in the Data Center, HPC-IODC 2016, Application Performance on Intel Xeon Phi – Being Prepared for KNL and Beyond, IXPUG 2016, International Workshop on OpenPOWER for HPC, IWOPH 2016, International Workshop on Performance Portable Programming Models for Accelerators, P^3MA 2016, Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing, VHPC 2016, Workshop on Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems, WOPSSS 2016, Frankfurt, Germany, 19/06/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46079-6_13

Early application performance at the hartree centre with the openPOWER architecture. / Ashworth, Mike; Meng, Jianping; Novakovic, Vedran et al.
High Performance Computing - ISC High Performance 2016 International Workshops ExaComm, E-MuCoCoS, HPC-IODC, IXPUG, IWOPH, P^3MA, VHPC, WOPSSS, Revised Selected. ed. / Bernd Mohr; Julian M. Kunkel; Michela Taufer. Springer Nature, 2016. p. 173-187 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9945 LNCS).

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Ashworth M, Meng J, Novakovic V, Siso S. Early application performance at the hartree centre with the openPOWER architecture. In Mohr B, Kunkel JM, Taufer M, editors, High Performance Computing - ISC High Performance 2016 International Workshops ExaComm, E-MuCoCoS, HPC-IODC, IXPUG, IWOPH, P^3MA, VHPC, WOPSSS, Revised Selected. Springer Nature. 2016. p. 173-187. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-46079-6_13

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