Toucan-A Translator for Communication Tolerant MPI Applications

Sergio M. Martin, Marsha J. Berger, Scott B. Baden

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Abstract

We discuss early results with Toucan, a source-to-source translatorthat automatically restructures C/C++ MPI applications tooverlap communication with computation. We co-designed thetranslator and runtime system to enable dynamic, dependence-drivenexecution of MPI applications, and require only a modest amount ofprogrammer annotation. Co-design was essential to realizingoverlap through dynamic code block reordering and avoiding the limitations of static code relocation and inlining. We demonstrate that Toucan hides significantcommunication in four representative applications running on up to 24Kcores of NERSC's Edison platform. Using Toucan, we have hidden from 33% to 85% of the communication overhead, with performance meeting or exceeding that of painstakingly hand-written overlap variants.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 IEEE 31st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages998-1007
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781538639146
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 30 2017
Event31st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2017 - Orlando, United States
Duration: May 29 2017Jun 2 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2017 IEEE 31st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2017

Other

Other31st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando
Period5/29/176/2/17

Keywords

  • Communication/Computation Overlap
  • Data-Driven
  • MPI
  • Source-to-Source Translator

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture

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