Ookami [3] is a computer technology testbed supported by the United States National Science Foundation. It provides researchers with access to the A64FX processor developed by Fujitsu [17] in collaboration with RIKΞN [35, 37] for the Japanese path to exascale computing, as deployed in Fugaku [36], the fastest computer in the world [34]. By focusing on crucial architectural details, the ARMbased, multi-core, 512-bit SIMD-vector processor with ultrahighbandwidth memory promises to retain familiar and successful programming models while achieving very high performance for a
Alternative programming models and runtimes are increasing in popularity and maturity. This allows porting and comparing, on competitive grounds, emerging parallel approaches against the traditional MPI+X paradigm. In this work, an implementation of distributed task-based stencil computation is compared with a traditional MPI+X implementation of the same application. The Legion task-based parallel programming system is used as an alternative to MPI, but the underlying OpenMP approach is kept at the subdomain level. Overall results are promising toward making this alternative method competitive to the traditional MPI approach. In future work, extensions to other applications will be explored, as well as the use of GPUs.
CCS CONCEPTS• Computing methodologies → Parallel programming languages.
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