Performance Analysis for Mesh and Mesh-Spectral Archetype Applications

Rifkin, Adam and Massingill, Berna (1998) Performance Analysis for Mesh and Mesh-Spectral Archetype Applications. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology. [CaltechCSTR:1998.cs-tr-96-27]

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Abstract

This document outlines a simple method for benchmarking a parallel communication library and for using the results to model the performance of applications developed with that communication library. We use compositional performance analysis - decomposing a parallel program into its modular parts and analyzing their respective performances - to gain perspective on the performance of the whole program. This model is useful for predicting parallel program execution times for different types of program archetypes, (e.g., mesh and mesh-spectral) using communication libraries built with different message-passing schemes (e.g., Fortran M and Fortran with MPI) running on different architectures (e.g., IBM SP2 and a network of Pentium personal computers).

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Deposited On:	30 April 2001
Record Number:	CaltechCSTR:1998.cs-tr-96-27
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