GTC SC11
Background
| Link | Code | Version | Machine | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SC paper | Unreleased | Development Version | Keeneland | Nov. 2011 |
In the fall of 2011, several performance studies were conducted on a port of the GTC application of GPUs (full paper).
1/22/2012 - Updated with more details by Chee Wai Lee.
Keeneland was chossen at the site for running these experiments, and is accessible to the developers as well. This example makes use of a user-built version of TAU. Instructions will be added for when we confirm the system-installed version of TAU works.
The GNU compilers were chosen so as to minimize in conflict with CUDArt with does not support other compilers. Because Keeneland's default environment is "PE-intel", the following module switch is probably needed - "module switch PE-intel PE-gnu".
Building TAU
PDT:
cd <path-to-PDT>
./configure -gnu
make && make install
TAU:
cd <path-to-TAU>
./configure -pdt=<path-to-PDT> -pdt_c++=g++ -cuda=/sw/keeneland/cuda/4.0/linux_binary/ -bfd=download -cc=gcc -c++=g++ -mpi -cupti=/sw/keeneland/cuda/4.0/linux_binary/CUDAToolsSDK/CUPTI/ -openmp -opari
make install
Building GTC
Here is the Makefile used. The architecture-specific Makefiles are located in <path-to-GTC>/ARCH. Users are advised to make a copy with a name like "Makefile.keeneland-opt-gnu-tau" as an example. Note that as of this writing (1/22/2012), we will still need users to point to a personalized copy of the CUDA SDK (as evidenced by the SDK_HOME environment setting):
# Define the following to 1 to enable build
BENCH_GTC_MPI = 1
BENCH_CHARGEI_PTHREADS = 0
BENCH_PUSHI_PTHREADS = 0
BENCH_SERIAL = 0
SDK_HOME = /nics/c/home/biersdor/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/
CUDA_HOME = /sw/keeneland/cuda/4.0/linux_binary
NVCC_HOME = $(CUDA_HOME)
TAU_MAKEFILE=/nics/c/home/biersdor/tau2/x86_64/lib/Makefile.tau-cupti-mpi-pdt-openmp-opari
TAU_OPTIONS='-optPdtCOpts=-DPDT_PARSE -optVerbose -optShared -optTauSelectFile=select.tau'
TAU_FLAGS=-tau_makefile=$(TAU_MAKEFILE) -tau_options=$(TAU_OPTIONS)
CC = tau_cc.sh $(TAU_FLAGS)
MPICC = tau_cc.sh $(TAU_FLAGS)
NVCC = nvcc
NVCC_FLAGS = -gencode=arch=compute_20,code=\"sm_20,compute_20\" -gencode=arch=compute_20,code=\"sm_20,compute_20\" -m64 --compiler-options '-finstrument-functions -fno-strict-aliasing' -I$(NVCC_HOME)/include -I. -DUNIX -O3 -DGPU_ACCEL=1 -I./ -I$(SDK_HOME)/C/common/inc -I$(SDK_HOME)/shared/inc
NVCC_LINK_FLAGS = -fPIC -m64 -L$(NVCC_HOME)/lib64 -L$(SDK_HOME)/shared/lib -L$(SDK_HOME)/C/lib -L$(SDK_HOME)/C/common/lib/linux -lcudart -lstdc++
CFLAGS = -DUSE_MPI=1 -DGPU_ACCEL=1
CFLAGSOMP = -fopenmp
COPTFLAGS = -std=c99
#CFLAGSOMP = -mp=bind
#COPTFLAGS = -fast
CDEPFLAGS = -MD
CLDFLAGS = -limf $(NVCC_LINK_FLAGS)
MPIDIR =
CFLAGS += -I$(CUDA_HOME)/include/
EXEEXT = _keeneland_opt_gnu_tau_pdt
AR = ar
ARCRFLAGS = cr
RANLIB = ranlib
PDT was chosen to allow for event filtering here is the select file used:
BEGIN_EXCLUDE_LIST double RngStream_RandU01(RngStream) double U01(RngStream) END_EXCLUDE_LIST
The select file should be placed in <path-to-GTC>/src/mpi.
Then build GTC as follows:
cd <path-to-GTC>/src/mpi
make ARCH=keeneland-opt-gnu-tau
If successful, the binary will be available at <path-to-GTC>/src/mpi.
Running GTC
Along with the source code 3 sets of simulation parameters were given: A, B, C (largest). Also a choice of m-cell size: 20 or 96 (96 requires significantly more memory). A, B with m-cell size 20 were used for these performance results.
Performance Results
Here are some performance results that show the overall execution model:
Threads instrumented.
This show a trace of a single execution on one MPI process (Multiple nodes/gpus can be utilized as well, performance behavior is similar across each process).
This shows a representative a profile for the GPU.
