With the rapid increase of the size of applications and the complexity of the supercomputer architecture,topology-aware process mapping becomes increasingly important.High communication cost has become a dominant cons...With the rapid increase of the size of applications and the complexity of the supercomputer architecture,topology-aware process mapping becomes increasingly important.High communication cost has become a dominant constraint of the performance of applications running on the supercomputer.To avoid a bad mapping strategy which can lead to terrible communication performance,we propose an optimized heuristic topology-aware mapping algorithm(OHTMA).The algorithm attempts to minimize the hop-byte metric that we use to measure the mapping results.OHTMA incorporates a new greedy heuristic method and pair-exchange-based optimization.It reduces the number of long-distance communications and effectively enhances the locality of the communication.Experimental results on the Tianhe-3 exascale supercomputer prototype indicate that OHTMA can significantly reduce the communication costs.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2017YFB0202104)。
文摘With the rapid increase of the size of applications and the complexity of the supercomputer architecture,topology-aware process mapping becomes increasingly important.High communication cost has become a dominant constraint of the performance of applications running on the supercomputer.To avoid a bad mapping strategy which can lead to terrible communication performance,we propose an optimized heuristic topology-aware mapping algorithm(OHTMA).The algorithm attempts to minimize the hop-byte metric that we use to measure the mapping results.OHTMA incorporates a new greedy heuristic method and pair-exchange-based optimization.It reduces the number of long-distance communications and effectively enhances the locality of the communication.Experimental results on the Tianhe-3 exascale supercomputer prototype indicate that OHTMA can significantly reduce the communication costs.
