Performance Evaluation of a Hybrid Computer Cluster Built on IBM POWER8 Microprocessors
- Authors: Mal’kovskii S.I.1, Sorokin A.A.1, Korolev S.P.1, Zatsarinnyi A.A.2, Tsoi G.I.1
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Affiliations:
- Computing Center of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control,” Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 45, No 6 (2019)
- Pages: 324-332
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0361-7688/article/view/176911
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0361768819060057
- ID: 176911
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Abstract
This paper is devoted to the performance evaluation of a hybrid computer cluster built on IBM POWER8 CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs. The architecture of the computing system and software used are described. Results of experiments carried out using the STREAM, NPB, Crossroads/NERSC-9 DGEMM, and HPL packages are discussed. The efficiency of the simultaneous multithreading (SMT) technology supported by POWER8 processors, as well as the performance of some compilers, parallel programming and mathematical libraries, on this architecture is analyzed.
About the authors
S. I. Mal’kovskii
Computing Center of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: alsor@febras.net
Russian Federation, ul. Kim Yu Chena 65, Khabarovsk, 680000
A. A. Sorokin
Computing Center of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: alsor@febras.net
Russian Federation, ul. Kim Yu Chena 65, Khabarovsk, 680000
S. P. Korolev
Computing Center of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: alsor@febras.net
Russian Federation, ul. Kim Yu Chena 65, Khabarovsk, 680000
A. A. Zatsarinnyi
Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control,” Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: alsor@febras.net
Russian Federation, ul. Vavilova 44/2, Moscow, 119333
G. I. Tsoi
Computing Center of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: alsor@febras.net
Russian Federation, ul. Kim Yu Chena 65, Khabarovsk, 680000