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Benchmarking MILC code with OpenMP and MPI

Steven Gottlieb·Sonali Tamhankar
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A trend in high performance computers that is becoming increasingly popular is the use of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) rather than the older paradigm of MPP. MPI codes that ran and scaled well on MPP machines can often be run on an SMP machine using the vendor's version of MPI. However, this approach may not make optimal use of the (expensive) SMP hardware. More significantly, there are machines like Blue Horizon, an IBM SP with 8-way SMP nodes at the San Diego Supercomputer Center that can only support 4 MPI processes per node (with the current switch). On such a machine it is imperative to be able to use OpenMP parallelism on the node, and MPI between nodes. We describe the challenges of converting MILC MPI code to using a second level of OpenMP parallelism, and benchmarks on IBM and Sun computers.

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Steven Gottlieb, Sonali Tamhankar. 2000-11-07. Benchmarking MILC code with OpenMP and MPI. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0920-5632(01)01016-7

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