NDLI: Evaluating MPI Implementations Using HPL on an Infiniband Nehalem Linux Cluster

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Sindi, M.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	In conjunction with Moore’s Law, computer speeds are expected to double approximately every two years, but with the current challenges that computer manufacturers are facing to double speeds of individual processors, due to various reasons, such as processor temperatures, multiprocessor architectures have become more popular nowadays. Eventually, this has led to an increased interest in standards for writing parallel applications. The Message Passing Interface (MPI) has become the de facto standard for writing parallel applications. Our growing needs for the latest high performance computing solutions in Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producing company, has given us the opportunity to evaluate three of the most commonly used MPI implementations, MVAPICH, Open MPI, and Intel MPI on Intel’s latest Nehalem processor. In this paper, we describe our test bed environment along with the evaluations that we did using the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, which is the standard benchmark for ranking the world’s Top 500 supercomputers. We also discuss our own developed Web tool that is used to suggest tuned input values for the HPL benchmark. We show the performance numbers in GFLOPS along with the run times and system efficiencies when running on 32, 64 and 128 Infiniband Nehalem Linux cluster nodes using the three implementations of MPI. We finally discuss our results in terms of performance and scalability and we share our interpretations and future work.
Starting Page	19
Ending Page	25
File Size	547640
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424462704
e-ISBN	9781424462711
DOI	10.1109/ITNG.2010.164
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-04-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Temperature Linpack Computer aided manufacturing MPI Application software Manufacturing processes Linux Moore's Law Message passing Aramco Computer architecture Benchmark testing Writing HPC
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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