Publications of Torsten Hoefler

Torsten Hoefler, P. Gottschling and Andrew Lumsdaine:

Brief Announcement: Leveraging Non-blocking Collective Communication in High-performance Applications

(In Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, SPAA'08, presented in Munich, Germany, pages 113-115, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ISBN: 978-1-59593-973-9, Jun. 2008, (short paper) )

Abstract

Although overlapping communication with computation is an important mechanism for achieving high performance in parallel programs, developing applications that actually achieve good overlap can be difficult. Existing approaches are typically based on manual or compiler-based transformations. This paper presents a pattern and library-based approach to optimizing collective communication in parallel high-performance applications, based on using non-blocking collective operations to enable overlapping of communication and computation. Common communication and computation patterns in iterative SPMD computations are used to motivate the transformations we present. Our approach provides the programmer with the capability to separately optimize communication and computation in an application, while automating the interaction between computation and communication to achieve maximum overlap. Performance results results with two model applications show more than 90% decrease in communication overhead, resulting in 16% and 21% overall performance improvements.

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@inproceedings{hoefler-principles-overlap,
  author={Torsten Hoefler and P. Gottschling and Andrew Lumsdaine},
  title={{Brief Announcement: Leveraging Non-blocking Collective Communication in High-performance Applications}},
  year={2008},
  month={Jun.},
  pages={113-115},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, SPAA'08},
  location={Munich, Germany},
  publisher={Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)},
  isbn={978-1-59593-973-9},
  note={(short paper)},
  source={http://www.unixer.de/~htor/publications/},
}


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