Reproducible measurements of MPI performance characteristics

William Gropp; Ewing Lusk

doi:10.1007/3-540-48158-3_2

Reproducible measurements of MPI performance characteristics

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In this paper we describe the difficulties inherent in making accurate, reproducible measurements of message-passing performance. We describe some of the mistakes often made in attempting such measurements and the consequences of such mistakes. We describe mpptest, a suite of performance measurement programs developed at Argonne National Laboratory, that attempts to avoid such mistakes and obtain reproducible measures of MPI performance that can be useful to both MPI implementors and MPI application writers. We include a number of illustrative examples of its use.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Recent Advances in ParallelVirtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - 6th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, 1999, Proceedings
Editors	Jack Dongarra, Emilio Luque, Tomas Margalef
Publisher	Springer
Pages	11-18
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	3540665498, 9783540665496
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48158-3_2
State	Published - 1999
Externally published	Yes
Event	6th European Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface Users’ Group Meeting, 1999 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: Sep 26 1999 → Sep 29 1999

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	1697
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	6th European Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface Users’ Group Meeting, 1999
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	9/26/99 → 9/29/99

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General Computer Science

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Gropp, W., & Lusk, E. (1999). Reproducible measurements of MPI performance characteristics. In J. Dongarra, E. Luque, & T. Margalef (Eds.), Recent Advances in ParallelVirtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - 6th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, 1999, Proceedings (pp. 11-18). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 1697). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48158-3_2

Reproducible measurements of MPI performance characteristics. / Gropp, William; Lusk, Ewing.
Recent Advances in ParallelVirtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - 6th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, 1999, Proceedings. ed. / Jack Dongarra; Emilio Luque; Tomas Margalef. Springer, 1999. p. 11-18 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 1697).

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Gropp, W & Lusk, E 1999, Reproducible measurements of MPI performance characteristics. in J Dongarra, E Luque & T Margalef (eds), Recent Advances in ParallelVirtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - 6th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, 1999, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 1697, Springer, pp. 11-18, 6th European Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface Users’ Group Meeting, 1999, Barcelona, Spain, 9/26/99. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48158-3_2

Gropp W, Lusk E. Reproducible measurements of MPI performance characteristics. In Dongarra J, Luque E, Margalef T, editors, Recent Advances in ParallelVirtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - 6th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, 1999, Proceedings. Springer. 1999. p. 11-18. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/3-540-48158-3_2

Gropp, William ; Lusk, Ewing. / Reproducible measurements of MPI performance characteristics. Recent Advances in ParallelVirtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - 6th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, 1999, Proceedings. editor / Jack Dongarra ; Emilio Luque ; Tomas Margalef. Springer, 1999. pp. 11-18 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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