NDLI: Designing efficient small message transfer mechanism for inter-node MPI communication on InfiniBand GPU clusters

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Author	Rong Shi Potluri, S. Hamidouche, K. Perkins, J. Mingzhe Li Rossetti, D. Panda, D.K.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA (Rong Shi; Potluri, S.; Hamidouche, K.; Perkins, J.; Mingzhe Li; Panda, D.K.) \|\| NVIDIA Corp., Santa Clara, CA, USA (Rossetti, D.)
Abstract	Increasing number of MPI applications are being ported to take advantage of the compute power offered by GPUs. Data movement on GPU clusters continues to be the major bottleneck that keeps scientific applications from fully harnessing the potential of GPUs. Earlier, GPU-GPU inter-node communication has to move data from GPU memory to host memory before sending it over the network. MPI libraries like MVAPICH2 have provided solutions to alleviate this bottleneck using host-based pipelining techniques. Besides that, the newly introduced GPU Direct RDMA (GDR) is a promising solution to further solve this data movement bottleneck. However, existing design in MPI libraries applies the rendezvous protocol for all message sizes, which incurs considerable overhead for small message communications due to extra synchronization message exchange. In this paper, we propose new techniques to optimize internode GPU-to-GPU communications for small message sizes. Our designs to support the eager protocol include efficient support at both sender and receiver sides. Furthermore, we propose a new data path to provide fast copies between host and GPU memories. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to propose efficient designs for GPU communication for small message sizes, using eager protocol. Our experimental results demonstrate up to 59% and 63% reduction in latency for GPU-to-GPU and CPU-to-GPU point-to-point communications, respectively. These designs boost the uni-directional bandwidth by 7.3x and 1.7x, respectively. We also evaluate our proposed design with two end-applications: GPULBM and HOOMD-blue. Performance numbers on Kepler GPUs shows that, compared to the best existing GDR design, our proposed designs achieve up to 23.4% latency reduction for GPULBM and 58% increase in average TPS for HOOMD-blue, respectively.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	10
File Size	454269
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e-ISBN	9781479959761
DOI	10.1109/HiPC.2014.7116873
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-12-17
Publisher Place	India
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Graphics processing units Protocols Bandwidth Libraries Receivers Benchmark testing Performance evaluation GPU Direct RDMA MPI CUDA InfiniBand
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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