Published February 28, 2013 | Version v1
Working paper Open

Performance analysis of parallel applications on modern multithreaded processor architectures

  • 1. Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling (ICM), University of Warsaw, Poland
  • 1. Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling (ICM), University of Warsaw, Poland

Description

In this whitepaper we describe the effort we have made to measure performance of applications and synthetic benchmarks
with the use of different simultaneous multithreading (SMT) modes. This specific processor architecture feature is currently
available in many petascale HPC systems worldwide. Both IBM Power7 processors available in Power775 (IH) and IBM Power
A2 processors available in Blue Gene/Q are built upon 4-way simultaneous multithreaded cores. It should be also mentioned that
multithreading is predicted to be one of the leading features of future exascale systems available by the end of next decade [1].

Files

Performance Analysis of Parallel Applications on Modern Multithreaded Processor Architectures _Final.pdf

Additional details

Funding

PRACE-2IP – PRACE - Second Implementation Phase Project 283493
European Commission