Automatic Performance Prediction of Parallel Programs - Brossura

Fahringer, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 1461285925 ISBN 13: 9781461285922

Casa editrice: Springer, 2012

Riassunto

Automatic Performance Prediction of Parallel Programs presents a unified approach to the problem of automatically estimating the performance of parallel computer programs. The author focuses primarily on distributed memory multiprocessor systems, although large portions of the analysis can be applied to shared memory architectures as well. The author introduces a novel and very practical approach for predicting some of the most important performance parameters of parallel programs, including work distribution, number of transfers, amount of data transferred, network contention, transfer time, computation time and number of cache misses. This approach is based on advanced compiler analysis that carefully examines loop iteration spaces, procedure calls, array subscript expressions, communication patterns, data distributions and optimizing code transformations at the program level; and the most important machine specific parameters including cache characteristics, communication network indices, and benchmark data for computational operations at the machine level. The material has been fully implemented as part of P3T, which is an integrated automatic performance estimator of the Vienna Fortran Compilation System (VFCS), a state-of-the-art parallelizing compiler for Fortran77, Vienna Fortran and a subset of High Performance Fortran (HPF) programs. A large number of experiments using realistic HPF and Vienna Fortran code examples demonstrate highly accurate performance estimates, and the ability of the described performance prediction approach to successfully guide both programmer and compiler in parallelizing and optimizing parallel programs. A graphical user interface is described and displayed that visualizes each program source line together with the corresponding parameter values. P3T uses color-coded performance visualization to immediately identify hot spots in the parallel program. Performance data can be filt

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Contenuti

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Automatic Parallelization for Multiprocessor Systems.- 1.2 Motivation for Performance Prediction.- 1.3 P3T: Parameter based Performance Prediction Tool.- 1.4 Overview.- 2 Model.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Sequential Programs.- 2.3 Parallel Programs.- 2.4 Basic Parallelization Strategy.- 2.5 Optimizing Compiler Transformations.- 2.6 Using P3T and WF under VFCS.- 2.7 Summary.- 3 Sequential Program Parameters.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Sequential Program Parameters.- 3.3 Instrumentation.- 3.4 Optimization.- 3.5 Adaptation of Profile Data.- 3.6 Summary.- 4 Parallel Program Parameters.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Work Distribution.- 4.3 Number of Transfers.- 4.4 Amount of Data Transferred.- 4.5 Transfer Time.- 4.6 Network Contention.- 4.7 Number of Cache Misses.- 4.8 Computation Time.- 4.9 Summary.- 5 Experiments.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Implementation Status.- 5.3 Estimation Accuracy of P3T.- 5.4 Usefulness of P3T.- 5.5 Graphical User Interface of P3T.- 5.6 Summary.- 6 Related Work.- 6.1 Performance Prediction Techniques.- 6.2 Classification of Performance Estimators.- 7 Conclusions.- 7.1 Contributions.- 7.2 Future Research.- A Appendix.- A.1 Intersection and Volume Computation of Convex n-dimensional Polytopes.- A.2 Notation.- References.

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Book by Fahringer Thomas

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1461285925
• ISBN 13: 9781461285922
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 296
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile