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Doing IO with MPI and Benchmarking It with SKaMPI-5

In: High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering '08

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  • Joachim Mathes

    (Universität Karlsruhe, IAKS)

  • Argirios Perogiannakis

    (Universität Karlsruhe, IAKS)

  • Thomas Worsch

    (Universität Karlsruhe, IAKS)

Abstract

Summary SKaMPI-5 is a micro-benchmark for MPI implementations, designed to be easily extensible. Besides a “global” parallel file system at least some parallel machines offer (many) hard disks which are local to (processors or) computing nodes. While the MPI2 standard includes functions for doing disk IO, MPI is unable to use this resource because by (our) definition the local disks are not visible to remote processors/nodes. But it is possible to write thin layers of code which allow this kind of access. If used with many hard disks, theoretically very high disk IO bandwidths are possible. In the present paper we have a closer look at one such approach, and give an overview of the extension of SKaMPI-5 for the evaluation of this. We also present a few selected results of benchmark runs for MPI-IO, giving an impression of what is possible with the MPI-IO measurements available in SKaMPI-5. In addition we point out several problems one is facing.

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  • Joachim Mathes & Argirios Perogiannakis & Thomas Worsch, 2009. "Doing IO with MPI and Benchmarking It with SKaMPI-5," Springer Books, in: Wolfgang E. Nagel & Dietmar B. Kröner & Michael M. Resch (ed.), High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering '08, pages 599-613, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-88303-6_41
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88303-6_41
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