[Beowulf] Performance characterising a HPC application

[Richard Walsh]

Greg Lindahl wrote:
> Note that the new MVAPICH has message coalescing, which causes its
> 2-node streaming bandwidth and message rate to rise. Note that real
> apps rarely have that message pattern -- instead, they send a single
> message each to lots of other nodes before synchronizing. Message rate
> benchmarks like "base" HPCC Gups get no benefit from message
> coalescing.
>   
    The point is a good one when you are talking about spoofing a
benchmark intended to
    measure latency (poorly designed in the suggested case), but of
course aggregation is
    a legitimate optimization technique because not all message patterns
are of the Gups
    variety just as not all memory references are absent locality. 
Aggregation is of course
    not bad per se.

    It is useful in a message context in the same way the vector
instructions are useful in a memory
    reference context.  Automatic "message" aggregation is an
optimization technique being
    used in UPC compiler development.

    rbw

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