PAPI 3081 on Blue Gene L.pptVIP

PAPI on Blue Gene L Using network performance counters to layout tasks for improved performance Presentation overview Project objectives PAPI explanation Blue Gene L explanation Current state of research Project objectives Upgrade PAPI on BG/L Provide interface for network counters Allow Lawrence Livermore National Lab users to also have access to PAPI Using network counters to place tasks optimally on BG/L PAPI – Intro PAPI – Intro PAPI useful to profile your own programs. Many tools based on PAPI PapiEx – Command line measurement tool PerfSuite – Aggregate measurement and statistical profiling package and API HPCToolkit – Statistical profiling package Many more! PAPI – Supported platforms IBM – POWER3, 604, 604e, POWER4 Cray T3E, Cray X1 AMD – Athlon, Opteron Intel – P1 to P4, Itanium I and II UltraSparc I, II III MIPS R10K, R12K, R14K Alpha PAPI – Generic Interface Call sequence for generic interface PAPI_library_init – Initialize memory for PAPI’s data structures PAPI_create_eventset – Create an empty list of events PAPI_add_event – Add events to be counted PAPI_start – Begin counting all events within the specified eventset PAPI_stop – Stop all counters and read their current values PAPI – Events: Presets Presets – list of predefined events implemented on all systems where they can be supported Not all presets available on every architecture (e.g. BG/L has no cache lower than L3 – thus L1 cache hit preset not applicable) Native events form the basic building blocks for PAPI presets PAPI – Events: Presets PAPI – Events: Native In addition to the predefined PAPI preset events, the PAPI library also exposes a majority of the events native to each platform Can be added to eventsets in the same manner as presets PAPI – Events: Native PAPI – Internals Array of eventsets is the main portion PAPI – Other features Multiplexing – If there are not enough hardware counters Thread safe – Profiling is thread safe Overflow detection – Hardware counters have lim