Performance Modeling and Programming Environments for Petaflops Computers and the Blue Gene Machine

Workshop on Next Generation Software at IPDPS (NSFNGS) 2004

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Abstract

We present a performance modeling and programming environment for petaflops computers and the Blue Gene machine. It consists of a parallel simulator, BigSim, for predicting performance of machines with a very large number of processors, and BigNetSim, an ongoing effort to incorporate a pluggable module of a detailed contention-based network model. It provides the ability to make performance predictions for machines such as BlueGene/L. We also explore the programming environments for several planned applications on the machines including Finite Element Method (FEM) simulation.

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Gengbin Zheng and Terry Wilmarth and Orion Sky Lawlor and Laxmikant V. Kale 
and Sarita Adve and David Padua and Philippe Geubelle, "Performance Modeling 
and Programming Environments for Petaflops Computers and the Blue Gene Machine",
NSF Next Generation Systems Program Workshop, 18th International Parallel and 
Distributed Processing Symposium(IPDPS), Santa Fe, New Mexico, Publ: IEEE Press,
April 2004. pp. 197.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{ngsIPDPS04,
  author = 	 {Gengbin Zheng and Terry Wilmarth and Orion Sky Lawlor and Laxmikant V. Kal{\'e} and Sarita Adve and David Padua and Philippe Geubelle},
  title = 	 {Performance Modeling and Programming Environments for Petaflops Computers and the Blue Gene Machine},
  booktitle = "NSF Next Generation Systems Program Workshop, 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium(IPDPS)",
  month = "April",
  year = "2004",
  pages = "197",
  address = "Santa Fe, New Mexico",
  publisher = "IEEE Press",
  group = Y,
}