Efficient Generation of Parallel Spin-images Using Dynamic Loop Scheduling

Eleliemy, Ahmed; Mohammed, Ali; Ciorba, Florina M.

doi:10.1109/hpccws.2017.00012

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“…The master also doubles as a worker process and executes chunks of tasks. The DLB tool was further extended into DLS4LB [2] with four additional DLS techniques: SS, FSC, TSS, and WF to support 13 DLS techniques in total, and was used to balance the load of two scientific applications (PSIA [27] and Mandelbrot [13]) and five synthetic workloads.…”

Section: Dls Implementation In Mpi and Openmpmentioning

confidence: 99%

Two-level Dynamic Load Balancing for High Performance Scientific Applications

Mohammed¹,

Cavelan²,

Ciorba³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing

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Scientific applications are often complex, irregular, and computationally-intensive. To accommodate the ever-increasing computational demands of scientific applications, high performance computing (HPC) systems have become larger and more complex, offering parallelism at multiple levels (e.g., nodes, cores per node, threads per core). Scientific applications need to exploit all the available multilevel hardware parallelism to harness the available computational power. The performance of applications executing on such HPC systems may adversely be affected by load imbalance at multiple levels, caused by problem, algorithmic, and systemic characteristics. Nevertheless, most existing load balancing methods do not simultaneously address load imbalance at multiple levels. This work investigates the impact of load imbalance on the performance of three scientific applications at the thread and process levels. We jointly apply and evaluate selected dynamic loop self-scheduling (DLS) techniques to both levels. Specifically, we employ the extended LaPeSD OpenMP runtime library [1] at the thread level, and extend the DLS4LB MPI-based dynamic load balancing library [2] at the process level. This approach is generic and applicable to any multiprocess-multithreaded computationally-intensive application (programmed using MPI and OpenMP). We conduct an exhaustive set of experiments to assess and compare six DLS techniques at the thread level and eleven at the process level. The results show that improved application performance, by up to 21%, can only be achieved by jointly addressing load imbalance at the two levels. We offer insights into the performance of the selected DLS techniques and discuss the interplay of load balancing at the thread level and process level.

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confidence: 99%

Two-level Dynamic Load Balancing for High Performance Scientific Applications

Mohammed¹,

Cavelan²,

Ciorba³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing

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“…The main contributions of this work are: (1) Proposal and implementation of five DLS techniques with distributed chunk-calculation for distributed-memory systems. (2) Evaluation of the benefit of using MPI one-sided communication and passive-target synchronization mode to implement the DLS techniques: SS [2], GSS [3], TSS [4], FAC [5], and WF [6] against other existing approaches [10,11,21].…”

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Dynamic Loop Scheduling Using MPI Passive-Target Remote Memory Access

Eleliemy

Ciorba

2019

2019 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP)

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Scientific applications often contain large computationally-intensive parallel loops. Loop scheduling techniques aim to achieve load balanced executions of such applications. For distributed-memory systems, existing dynamic loop scheduling (DLS) libraries are typically MPI-based, and employ a master-worker execution model to assign variably-sized chunks of loop iterations. The master-worker execution model may adversely impact performance due to the master-level contention. This work proposes a distributed chunk-calculation approach that does not require the master-worker execution scheme. Moreover, it considers the novel features in the latest MPI standards, such as passive-target remote memory access, shared-memory window creation, and atomic read-modify-write operations. To evaluate the proposed approach, five well-known DLS techniques, two applications, and two heterogeneous hardware setups have been considered. The DLS techniques implemented using the proposed approach outperformed their counterparts implemented using the traditional master-worker execution model.

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“…The efficient generation of spin-images has a high-interest for 3D object recognition and categorization. Dynamic loop scheduling techniques have been used to implement an efficient parallel spin-image generation algorithm [36]. Therefore, the present work examines the potential of using hierarchical DLS techniques in enhancing the performance of PSIA.…”

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Hierarchical Dynamic Loop Self-Scheduling on Distributed-Memory Systems Using an MPI+MPI Approach

Eleliemy

Ciorba

2019

2019 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW)

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Computationally-intensive loops are the primary source of parallelism in scientific applications. Such loops are often irregular and a balanced execution of their loop iterations is critical for achieving high performance. However, several factors may lead to an imbalanced load execution, such as problem characteristics, algorithmic, and systemic variations. Dynamic loop self-scheduling (DLS) techniques are devised to mitigate these factors, and consequently, improve application performance. On distributed-memory systems, DLS techniques can be implemented using a hierarchical master-worker execution model and are, therefore, called hierarchical DLS techniques. These techniques self-schedule loop iterations at two levels of hardware parallelism: across and within compute nodes. Hybrid programming approaches that combine the message passing interface (MPI) with open multi-processing (OpenMP) dominate the implementation of hierarchical DLS techniques. The MPI-3 standard includes the feature of sharing memory regions among MPI processes. This feature introduced the MPI+MPI approach that simplifies the implementation of parallel scientific applications. The present work designs and implements hierarchical DLS techniques by exploiting the MPI+MPI approach. Four well-known DLS techniques are considered in the evaluation proposed herein. The results indicate certain performance advantages of the proposed approach compared to the hybrid MPI+OpenMP approach.

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Efficient Generation of Parallel Spin-images Using Dynamic Loop Scheduling

Cited by 14 publications

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Two-level Dynamic Load Balancing for High Performance Scientific Applications

Two-level Dynamic Load Balancing for High Performance Scientific Applications

Dynamic Loop Scheduling Using MPI Passive-Target Remote Memory Access

Hierarchical Dynamic Loop Self-Scheduling on Distributed-Memory Systems Using an MPI+MPI Approach

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