Title :
Performance evaluation of supercomputers using HPCC and IMB benchmarks
Author :
Saini, Subhash ; Ciotti, Robert ; Gunney, Brian T N ; Spelce, Thomas E. ; Koniges, Alice ; Dossa, Don ; Adamidis, Panagiotis ; Rabenseifner, Rolf ; Tiyyagura, Sunil R. ; Mueller, Matthias ; Fatoohi, Rod
Author_Institution :
Adv. Supercomput. Div., NASA Ames Res. Center, Moffett Field, CA
Abstract :
The HPC Challenge (HPCC) benchmark suite and the Intel MPI Benchmark (IMB) are used to compare and evaluate the combined performance of processor, memory subsystem and interconnect fabric of five leading supercomputers - SGI Altix BX2, Cray XI, Cray Opteron Cluster, Dell Xeon cluster, and NEC SX-8. These five systems use five different networks (SGI NUMALINK4, Cray network, Myrinet, InfiniBand, and NEC IXS). The complete set of HPCC benchmarks are run on each of these systems. Additionally, we present Intel MPI Benchmarks (IMB) results to study the performance of 11 MPI communication functions on these systems
Keywords :
benchmark testing; parallel machines; performance evaluation; Cray Opteron Cluster; Cray XI; Cray network; Dell Xeon cluster; HPC Challenge benchmark; InfiniBand; Intel MPI Benchmark; Myrinet; NEC IXS; NEC SX-8; SGI Altix BX2; SGI NUMALINK4; interconnect fabric; memory subsystem; performance evaluation; supercomputers; Bandwidth; Benchmark testing; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Delay; Fabrics; NASA; National electric code; Supercomputers; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2006. IPDPS 2006. 20th International
Conference_Location :
Rhodes Island
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0054-6
DOI :
10.1109/IPDPS.2006.1639622
