Effective Use of Dynamic Page Migration on NUMA Platforms: The Gaussian Chemistry Code on the SunFire X4600M2 System

Author

Yang, Rui ; Antony, Joseph ; Rendell, Alistair

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

14-16 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

63

Lastpage

68

Abstract

In this work we study the effect of data locality on the performance of Gaussian 03 code running on a multi-core non-uniform memory access (NUMA) system. A user-space protocol which affects runtime data locality, through the use of dynamic page migration and interleaving techniques, is considered. Using this protocol results in a significant performance improvement. Results for parallel Gaussian 03 using up to 16 threads are presented. The overhead of page migration and effect of dual-core contention are also examined.

Keywords

Gaussian processes; interleaved storage; Gaussian chemistry code; NUMA system; SunFire X4600M2 system; data locality; dynamic page migration; interleaving techniques; non-uniform memory access; user-space protocol; Access protocols; Chemistry; Computer science; Electrons; Hafnium; Interleaved codes; Multicore processing; Runtime; Supercomputers; Yarn; NUMA; data locality; dynamic page migration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks (ISPAN), 2009 10th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5403-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/I-SPAN.2009.127

Filename

5381968