Porting and tuning of the Mont-Blanc benchmarks to the multicore ARM 64bit architecture
Lin Xu, Hao Ying · RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) · 2016
This project is about porting and tuning the Mont-Blanc benchmarks to the multicore ARM 64 bits architecture. The Mont-Blanc benchmarks are part of the Mont-Blanc European project and they have been developed internally in the BSC (Barcelona Supercomputing Center). The project will explore the possibilities that an ARM architecture can offer running in a HPC (High Performance Computing) setup, this includes to learn how to tune and adapt a parallelized computer program and analyze its execution behavior. As part of the project, we will analyze the performance of each benchmark using instrumentation tools such like Extrae and Paraver. Each benchmark will be adapted, tuned and executed mainly in the three new Mont-Blanc mini-clusters, Thunder (ARMv8 custom), Merlin (ARMv8 custom) and Jetson TX (ARMv8 cortex-a57) using the OmpSs programming model. The evolution of the performance obtained will be shown followed by a brief analysis of the results after each optimization.