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High Performance Computing Systems. Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation

5th International Workshop, PMBS 2014, New Orleans, LA, USA, November 16, 2014. Revised Selected Papers

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Section A: Performance Benchmarking and Optimization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Algebraic Multigrid on a Dragonfly Network: First Experiences on a Cray XC30

      • Hormozd Gahvari, William Gropp, Kirk E. Jordan, Martin Schulz, Ulrike Meier Yang
      Pages 3-23
    3. Performance Evaluation of Scientific Applications on POWER8

      • Andrew V. Adinetz, Paul F. Baumeister, Hans Böttiger, Thorsten Hater, Thilo Maurer, Dirk Pleiter et al.
      Pages 24-45
    4. SPEC ACCEL: A Standard Application Suite for Measuring Hardware Accelerator Performance

      • Guido Juckeland, William Brantley, Sunita Chandrasekaran, Barbara Chapman, Shuai Che, Mathew Colgrove et al.
      Pages 46-67
    5. A CUDA Implementation of the High Performance Conjugate Gradient Benchmark

      • Everett Phillips, Massimiliano Fatica
      Pages 68-84
    6. Performance Analysis of a High-Level Abstractions-Based Hydrocode on Future Computing Systems

      • G. R. Mudalige, I. Z. Reguly, M. B. Giles, A. C. Mallinson, W. P. Gaudin, J. A. Herdman
      Pages 85-104
  3. Section B: Performance Analysis and Prediction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
    2. Insight into Application Performance Using Application-Dependent Characteristics

      • Waleed Alkohlani, Jeanine Cook, Nafiul Siddique
      Pages 107-128
    3. Roofline Model Toolkit: A Practical Tool for Architectural and Program Analysis

      • Yu Jung Lo, Samuel Williams, Brian Van Straalen, Terry J. Ligocki, Matthew J. Cordery, Nicholas J. Wright et al.
      Pages 129-148
    4. Modeling Stencil Computations on Modern HPC Architectures

      • Raúl de la Cruz, Mauricio Araya-Polo
      Pages 149-171
    5. Performance Modeling of the HPCG Benchmark

      • Vladimir Marjanović, José Gracia, Colin W. Glass
      Pages 172-192
    6. On the Performance Prediction of BLAS-based Tensor Contractions

      • Elmar Peise, Diego Fabregat-Traver, Paolo Bientinesi
      Pages 193-212
  4. Section C: Power, Energy and Checkpointing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
    2. Assessing General-Purpose Algorithms to Cope with Fail-Stop and Silent Errors

      • Anne Benoit, Aurélien Cavelan, Yves Robert, Hongyang Sun
      Pages 215-236
    3. A Case for Epidemic Fault Detection and Group Membership in HPC Storage Systems

      • Shane Snyder, Philip Carns, Jonathan Jenkins, Kevin Harms, Robert Ross, Misbah Mubarak et al.
      Pages 237-248
    4. Analysis of the Tradeoffs Between Energy and Run Time for Multilevel Checkpointing

      • Prasanna Balaprakash, Leonardo A. Bautista Gomez, Mohamed-Slim Bouguerra, Stefan M. Wild, Franck Cappello, Paul D. Hovland
      Pages 249-263
    5. On the Energy Proportionality of Distributed NoSQL Data Stores

      • Balaji Subramaniam, Wu-chun Feng
      Pages 264-274
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 275-276

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About this book

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop, PMBS 2014 in New Orleans, LA, USA in November  2014.

The 12 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers cover topics on performance benchmarking and optimization; performance analysis and prediction; and power, energy and checkpointing.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

    Stephen A. Jarvis, Steven A. Wright

  • Sandia National Laboratories CSRI, Albuquerque, USA

    Simon D. Hammond

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: High Performance Computing Systems. Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation

  • Book Subtitle: 5th International Workshop, PMBS 2014, New Orleans, LA, USA, November 16, 2014. Revised Selected Papers

  • Editors: Stephen A. Jarvis, Steven A. Wright, Simon D. Hammond

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17248-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-17247-7Published: 04 May 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-17248-4Published: 20 April 2015

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 276

  • Number of Illustrations: 101 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: System Performance and Evaluation, Computer System Implementation, Simulation and Modeling

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