Run-time exploitation of application dynamism for energy-efficient exascale computing

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RIV/61989100:27740/20:10245028

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20343-6_6" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-20343-6_6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Run-time exploitation of application dynamism for energy-efficient exascale computing

Original language description

In the embedded systems domain, energy efficiency has been a main design constraint for more than two decades. More recently, this has also become a major concern in high performance computing (HPC). Even though these two domains are different in many respects, techniques that have proven to be efficient in one may also be beneficial in the other. The split design-time and run-time approach of system-scenario-based design, which is described in this book, is being applied successfully in embedded systems, both to increase performance and to reduce power and energy consumption [7, 8, 12]. In the HPC domain, auto-tuning is used either at design-time to statically tune the system configuration or at run-time through compute intensive estimation of the dynamic requirements [2, 15]. Combining these approaches from embedded systems and HPC has the potential of giving substantial synergies in both domains. A constantly growing demand for data center computing performance leads to the installation of increasingly powerful and complex systems, characterized by a rising number of CPU cores as well as increasing heterogeneity. This makes optimization of HPC applications a complex task, which demands significant programming effort and high levels of expertise. With a growing computational performance, there is typically also an increase in a system&apos;s energy consumption, which in turn is a major driver for the total cost of ownership of HPC systems. Furthermore, limitations to chip temperature and cooling capabilities can make the performance of Exascale HPC systems power-bound. However, developers commonly focus on the implementation and improvement of algorithms with regard to accuracy and performance, neglecting possible improvements to energy efficiency. Often, programmers lack the platform and hardware knowledge required to exploit these measures, which is an important obstacle for their use both in the embedded and HPC domains. The European Union Horizon 2020 project READEX [6] (Run-time Exploitation of Application Dynamism for Energy-efficient eXascale computing) tackles these challenges by embracing the significant potential for improvements to performance and energy efficiency that result from dynamic resource requirements of HPC applications similar to those seen in embedded systems. Examples are alternating application regions and load-changes at application run-time. Such dynamism can be found in current HPC applications, including weather forecasting, molecular dynamics, or adaptive mesh-refinement applications. These applications often operate in an iterative manner, e.g., using a time step loop as the main control flow. Each iteration of such a program loop can be regarded as a phase of the application execution. In this context, intra-phase dynamism describes the changes in resource requirements and computational characteristics between different code regions executed by a single iteration, e.g., the change between memory- and compute-bound kernels. Intra-phase dynamism can be exploited by adjusting the system to the resource requirements of the current code region. Alternatively, inter-phase dynamism describes the changes in application behavior between iterations or phases. As the execution progresses, the required computation can vary, either on single processes-causing imbalances-or on all processes with a homogeneous rise in computational complexity on all processing elements. As discussed in Chap. 1, it is expected that applications running on future embedded systems platforms will exhibit even higher levels of dynamism. This will be mainly due to the increased demand for data movement performance between processing elements, both on intra- and inter-node levels, and more complex multi-level memory hierarchies. Furthermore, the rise of many-core co-processors and accelerators introduces new degrees of freedom such as offloading and scheduling. For extreme-scale HPC systems, this trend will be even more critical. The READEX project has developed and implemented a tools-aided methodology that enables HPC application developers to exploit dynamic application behavior when run on current and future extreme parallel and heterogeneous multi-processor platforms. READEX combines and extends state-of-the-art technologies in performance and energy efficiency tuning for HPC with dynamic energy optimization techniques for embedded systems. Many of the techniques developed for HPC systems can also be fed back to the embedded systems domain, in particular with the increasing performance seen in embedded multi-processor system-on-chip [10]. The general concept of the READEX project is to handle application energy efficiency and performance tuning by taking the complete application life-cycle approach. This is in contrast to other HPC approaches that regard performance and energy tuning as a static activity, which takes place in the application development phase. With inspiration from system-scenario-based design, READEX has developed a (semi-)automatic dynamic tuning methodology spanning the development (design-time) and production/maintenance (run-time) phases of the application life-cycle. Furthermore, a novel programming paradigm for application dynamism was developed that enables domain experts to pinpoint parts of the application and/or external events that influence the dynamic behavior. This can reduce the energy consumption even further, compared to a purely automatic approach. The rest of this chapter is organized as follows: After a review of related work and project background in Sect. 2, a description of the READEX concepts is given in Sect. 3. This is followed by results from experiments with a realistic industrial HPC application in Sect. 4. Section 5 concludes this chapter with a summary.

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

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

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Book/collection name

System-Scenario-based Design Principles and Applications

ISBN

978-3-030-20343-6

Number of pages of the result

14

Pages from-to

113-126

Number of pages of the book

230

Publisher name

Springer International Publishing

Place of publication

Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

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