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I/O Forwarding for Quiet Clusters

In: High Performance Computing on Vector Systems 2011

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  • Jaka Močnik

    (XLAB d.o.o.)

  • Marko Novak

    (XLAB d.o.o.)

  • Erich Focht

    (NEC HPC Europe)

Abstract

One of the important factors limiting the scalability of parallel applications to large-scale computing systems is the noise of the operating system running on the compute nodes. In this paper, the concept of OS noise is presented, noise sources are listed, and impact on (parallel) applications discussed. State-of-the-art means for noise mitigation are described. Two well-established synthetic micro-benchmarks for measuring noise are presented and their results on a test system are given. Noise induced by I/O operations is studied in detail and measured for different I/O software technologies. Design and implementation of an application-level framework for forwarding I/O operations to a dedicated I/O server, designed specifically to reduce the I/O-induced noise, is presented and compared to existing I/O technologies. The results show that the approach reduces noise significantly when compared even to state-of-the-art I/O solutions while maintaining good performance, but at a cost of sacrificing advanced file system functionalities. The developed software components used for implementing I/O forwarding enable users to achieve higher scalability on commodity based clusters with Infiniband interconnect with methods that were until now available only on a few specially designed HPC parallel computers.

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  • Jaka Močnik & Marko Novak & Erich Focht, 2011. "I/O Forwarding for Quiet Clusters," Springer Books, in: Michael Resch & Xin Wang & Wolfgang Bez & Erich Focht & Hiroaki Kobayashi & Sabine Roller (ed.), High Performance Computing on Vector Systems 2011, pages 21-39, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-22244-3_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22244-3_2
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