Performance Analysis of a Quantum Monte Carlo Application on Multiple Hardware Architectures Using the HPX Runtime

Weile Wei, Arghya Chatterjee, Kevin Huck, Oscar Hernandez, Hartmut Kaiser

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Abstract

This paper describes how we successfully used the HPX programming model to port the DCA++ application on multiple architectures that include POWER9, x86, ARM v8, and NVIDIA GPUs. We describe the lessons we can learn from this experience as well as the benefits of enabling the HPX in the application to improve the CPU threading part of the code, which led to an overall 21% improvement across architectures. We also describe how we used HPX-APEX to raise the level of abstraction to understand performance issues and to identify tasking optimization opportunities in the code, and how these relate to CPU/GPU utilization counters, device memory allocation over time, and CPU kernel level context switches on a given architecture.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of ScalA 2020
Subtitle of host publication11th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems, Held in conjunction with SC 2020: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages77-84
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781665422703
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2020
Event11th IEEE/ACM Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems, ScalA 2020 - Virtual, Atlanta, United States
Duration: Nov 13 2020Nov 13 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of ScalA 2020: 11th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems, Held in conjunction with SC 2020: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

Conference

Conference11th IEEE/ACM Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems, ScalA 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Atlanta
Period11/13/2011/13/20

Keywords

  • Autonomic Performance Environment for eXascale (APEX)
  • Dynamical Cluster Approximation (DCA)
  • HPX runtime system
  • Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC)

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