Title

Design of a simulation model for high performance LINPACK in hybrid CPU-GPU systems.

Authors

Hu, Yichang; Lu, Lu

Abstract

High performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark is used to evaluate the maximum floating-point performance of a computer cluster. Since the performance of the graphics processing unit (GPU) has been improved rapidly, many researchers start to optimize HPL benchmark through GPU to maximize system utilization. Nevertheless, it is difficult to determine the optimal combination of parameters in this process due to the complexity of the input. Therefore, running HPL on a heterogeneous system is time-consuming and is not flexible under different hardware components. So we propose a simulation model of HPL in this paper. The model is no longer limited by hardware components and able to simulate the execute process of HPL across different computing node in heterogeneous GPU-enhanced clusters at any scale. It can also assist researchers in evaluating the floating-point performance quickly and provide a reference for the hardware investment.

Subjects

GRAPHICS processing units; HYBRID systems; COMPUTER workstation clusters; COMPUTER performance; SIMULATION methods & models; HETEROGENEOUS computing

Publication

Journal of Supercomputing, 2021, Vol 77, Issue 12, p13739

ISSN

0920-8542

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1007/s11227-021-03829-x