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Parallel PDE Solvers on cc-NUMA Systems
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Division of Scientific Computing. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Numerical Analysis. (Software Aspects of High-Performance Computing)
2004 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The current trend in parallel computers is that systems with a large shared memory are becoming more and more popular. A shared memory system can be either a uniform memory architecture (UMA) or a cache coherent non-uniform memory architecture (cc-NUMA).

In the present thesis, the performance of parallel PDE solvers on cc-NUMA computers is studied. In particular, we consider the shared namespace programming model, represented by OpenMP. Since the main memory is physically, or geographically distributed over several multi-processor nodes, the latency for local memory accesses is smaller than for remote accesses. Therefore, the geographical locality of the data becomes important.

The questions posed in this thesis are: (1) How large is the influence on performance of the non-uniformity of the memory system? (2) How should a program be written in order to reduce this influence? (3) Is it possible to introduce optimizations in the computer system for this purpose?

Most of the application codes studied address the Euler equations using a finite difference method and a finite volume method respectively and are parallelized with OpenMP. Comparisons are made with an alternative implementation using MPI and with PDE solvers implemented with OpenMP that solve other equations using different numerical methods.

The main conclusion is that geographical locality is important for performance on cc-NUMA systems. This can be achieved through self optimization provided in the system or through migrate-on-next-touch directives that could be inserted automatically by the compiler.

We also conclude that OpenMP is competitive with MPI on cc-NUMA systems if care is taken to get a favourable data distribution.

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Uppsala University, 2004.
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Information technology licentiate theses: Licentiate theses from the Department of Information Technology, ISSN 1404-5117 ; 2004-002
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Software Engineering
Research subject
Scientific Computing
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-86307OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-86307DiVA, id: diva2:117116
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Available from: 2004-03-26 Created: 2006-05-14 Last updated: 2018-01-13Bibliographically approved

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