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Performance Evaluation of Pseudospectral Ultrasound Simulations on a Cluster of Xeon Phi Accelerators

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26230%2F21%3APU138855" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26230/21:PU138855 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-67077-1_6" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-67077-1_6</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67077-1_6" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-67077-1_6</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Performance Evaluation of Pseudospectral Ultrasound Simulations on a Cluster of Xeon Phi Accelerators

  • Original language description

    The ability to perform large-scale ultrasound simulations has generated significant interest in medical ultrasonics, including for treatment planning in therapeutic ultrasound, and image reconstruction in photoacoustic tomography. However, routine execution of such simulations using traditional computational methods, e.g., finite difference time domain, is considered intractable due to the computational and memory requirements. The k-Wave toolbox alleviates these requirements by employing a k-space corrected pseudospectral method. This significantly reduces the spatial and temporal grid resolution, however, at the cost of introducing global all-to-all communication through the use of the fast Fourier transform. To improve data locality, reduce data movements and allow efficient use of accelerators, we recently implemented a domain decomposition technique based on local Fourier basis. Nowadays, the trend in parallel computing is towards the use of accelerated nodes where computationally intensive tasks are offloaded from processors to accelerators. In this paper, we investigate the performance aspects of the distributed k-Wave implementation running on the Salomon cluster equipped with 864 Intel Xeon Phi (Knight's Corner) accelerators. The paper shows that running large simulations across many accelerators is not a trivial task. The main obstacle is the instability of Intel MPI on Infiniband interconnection once the number of accelerators exceeds 32. Beyond this limit, the use of service 1Gbps interconnection is the only solution. The second problem is low performance of the fast Fourier transforms ranging from 1% to 50% of a single 12-core CPU. Finally, there is no support for fast LustreFS file system. Despite these factors, the observed strong and weak scaling is comparable with a cluster of CPU, but the absolute running time is between 4.3x and 1.8x longer in the worst and best case, respectively. However, the accounting policy for

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    D - Article in proceedings

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Others

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Article name in the collection

    High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering. HPCSE 2019

  • ISBN

    978-3-030-67076-4

  • ISSN

  • e-ISSN

  • Number of pages

    17

  • Pages from-to

    99-115

  • Publisher name

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG

  • Place of publication

    Cham

  • Event location

    Hotel Soláň

  • Event date

    May 20, 2019

  • Type of event by nationality

    WRD - Celosvětová akce

  • UT code for WoS article