DE-AC-OR.ppt

Benchmarking using the Community Atmospheric Model Research sponsored by the Atmospheric and Climate Research Division and the Office of Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC. These slides have been authored by a contractor of the U.S. Government under contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725. Accordingly, the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the United States Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725. Context: Evaluation of Early Systems Performance Portability Description of Community Atmospheric Model (CAM) Tuning CAM for Benchmarking Benchmark Results evaluation study of low serial number or pre-commercial release HPC system with the goal of quickly determining promise of system Required Attributes Fast Fair Open Hierarchical Approach microbenchmarks for subsystem evaluation kernels for tuning, comparison of programming paradigms, and whole system performance evaluation applications for production performance estimation, generating scaling curves (with respect to processor count and/or problem size)* * Data useful for price-performance evaluations. We do not address this directly. 1987 - Intel iPSC/1, nCUBE 3200, Ametek S14 1988 - Intel iPSC/2 1990 - Intel iPSC/860, nCUBE 6400 1991 - KSR-1, Intel Touchstone Delta 1992 - Intel Paragon 1994 - Cray T3D 1995 - Intel Paragon MP, IBM SP2 1996 - Chen-1000, Convex SPP-1200 1998 - SGI Origin2000, Convex SPP-2000, Swiss T0 1999 - SRC Prototype, IBM SP (Winterhawk I, Nighthawk I) 2000 - Compaq AlphaServer SC (ES40), IBM SP (Winterhawk II), IBM SP (Nighthawk II) 2001 - IBM p690 (with SP Switch2), NEC SX-5, HP AlphaServer SC (ES45) , HP AlphaServer GS 2002 - NEC SX-6 2003 - Cra