Performance Analysis for Mesh and Mesh-Spectral Archetype Applications
- Creators
- Rifkin, Adam
- Massingill, Berna
Abstract
This document outlines a simple method for benchmarking a parallel communication library and for using the results to model the performance of applications developed with that communication library. We use compositional performance analysis - decomposing a parallel program into its modular parts and analyzing their respective performances - to gain perspective on the performance of the whole program. This model is useful for predicting parallel program execution times for different types of program archetypes, (e.g., mesh and mesh-spectral) using communication libraries built with different message-passing schemes (e.g., Fortran M and Fortran with MPI) running on different architectures (e.g., IBM SP2 and a network of Pentium personal computers).
Additional Information
© 1998 California Institute of Technology. December 9, 1996, Revised August 7, 1998. This research is supported in part by the NSF under CRPC grant CCR-9120008. This work constitutes part of the Caltech Archetypes Project; more information is available at http://www.etext.caltech.edu/archetypes.html on the Web.Attached Files
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- Eprint ID
- 26835
- Resolver ID
- CaltechCSTR:1998.cs-tr-96-27
- NSF
- CCR-9120008
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- Computer Science Technical Reports