Improving all-to-many personalized communication in two-phase i/o

Qiao Kang, Robert Ross, Robert Latham, Sunwoo Lee, Ankit Agrawal, Alok Choudhary, Wei Keng Liao

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Abstract

As modern parallel computers enter the exascale era, the communication cost for redistributing requests becomes a significant bottleneck in MPIIO routines. The communication kernel for request redistribution, which has an all-to-many personalized communication pattern for application programs with a large number of noncontiguous requests, plays an essential role in the overall performance. This paper explores the available communication kernels for two-phase I/O communication. We generalize the spread-out algorithm to adapt to the all-to-many communication pattern of two-phase I/O by reducing the communication straggler effect. Communication throttling methods that reduce communication contention for asynchronous MPI implementation are adopted to improve communication performance further. Experimental results are presented using different communication kernels running on Cray XC40 Cori and IBM AC922 Summit supercomputers with different I/O patterns. Our study shows that adjusting communication kernel algorithms for different I/O patterns can improve the end-to-end performance up to 10 times compared with default MPI-IO implementations.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of SC 2020
Subtitle of host publicationInternational Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781728199986
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2020
Event2020 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2020 - Virtual, Atlanta, United States
Duration: Nov 9 2020Nov 19 2020

Publication series

NameInternational Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC
Volume2020-November
ISSN (Print)2167-4329
ISSN (Electronic)2167-4337

Conference

Conference2020 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Atlanta
Period11/9/2011/19/20

Keywords

  • MPI-IO
  • ROMIO
  • communication traffic throttling
  • two-phase I/O

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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