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PASC’14

Rich is spending the week at ETH Zürich attending the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference. Many thanks to two of the co-organizers, Markus Püschel and Olaf Shank, for being great hosts!

If you are interested in getting a copy of Rich’s talk slides + related material, see: hpcgarage.org/pasc14

View form Villa Hatt

The view from Villa Hatt at ETH Zürich is not too shabby!

IPDPS’14

Jee and Rich are in Phoenix this week for IPDPS’14, where Jee will present his latest updates to his “energy roofline” model [Tue May 20, Session 11] :

Rich also has the pleasure of serving in a panel discussion at the High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing workshop. His position is that power-aware scheduling is really an optimal control problem. For his 1-slide summary, see: [link]

Outside our group, Georgia Tech has a very strong representation this year. Looking at the program, we count 9 papers, including two of the four “Best Papers.” Go, Buzz!

Jee chowing down on a pre-conference pulpo at Mariscos Sinaloa.

Jee chowing down on a pre-conference pulpo at Mariscos Sinaloa.

SIAM PP14

Piyush, Jee, and Rich are in Portland representing the lab at the SIAM Parallel Processing ’14 meeting. If you are also there, please drop by our various events! List below; resources (papers, slides) are here: [link].

Dagstuhl 13401

This week Rich has the great fortune of attending Dagstuhl Seminar 13401: Automatic Application Autotuning for HPC Architectures. He’ll be summarizing Jee’s work (with critical assists by Marat) on the energy archline model. For his slides and pointers to relevant materials, look here: [www]

"Classical" wing of Schloss Dagstuhl

“Classical” wing of Schloss Dagstuhl

ModSim’13

We’re in Seattle this week attending the US DOE Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Exascale Systems and Applications — “ModSim’13” [www]. A copy of Rich’s talk and pointers to supplemental materials is available here: hpcgarage.org/modsim13

See us at IPDPS’13!

Jee and Kent are speaking on Wednesday, May 22 at IPDPS’13. If you are attending, be sure to check out their talks!

  • Jee Choi et al. “A roofline model of energy.” Session 14, 10am-noon.
  • Kenneth Czechowski and R. Vuduc. “A theoretical framework for algorithm-architecture co-design.” Session 17, 1:30-3:30pm.

Both sessions are in the William Dawes Room at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge. Hope to see you there!

Rich gave a keynote at the 3rd International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems (AsHES) earlier this week. A copy of his slides is available here: hpcgarage.org/ashes2013

IPDPS’13 preprints

A notional space of processors.

A notional space of processors.

Kent and Jee will each present a paper at IPDPS’13, to be held in Boston in May. Kent’s paper is about a unique take on high-level algorithm-architecture co-design; Jee’s paper is about his “roofline” energy model. If you plan to attend, be sure to see their talks! We’ve also posted preprints under Papers.

  • Jee Choi and Richard Vuduc. A roofline model of energy. In Proc. IEEE Int’l. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symp. (IPDPS), Boston, MA, USA, May 2013. [PDF | BibTeX]
  • Kenneth Czechowski and Richard Vuduc. A theoretical framework for algorithm-architecture co-design. In Proc. IEEE Int’l. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symp. (IPDPS), Boston, MA, USA, May 2013. [PDF | BibTeX]

Jee-TC’13

Jee is headed out to the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) [link]. If you are attending, please drop by his poster, “P0159: A Roofline Model of Energy” [PDF].gtc-2013

SIAM CSE’13 talks

Aparna and Jee are at SIAM CSE 2013 in Boston this week, giving talks the fast multipole method and the energy roofline, respectively. (UPDATE: Click on the title for Jee’s talk to access the PDF slides.)

Tech report: Energy rooflines

Rooflines in time vs. "archlines" in energy

Rooflines in time vs. “archlines” in energy

Check out our new technical report, which presents a thought-experiment on the question of whether engineering an algorithm to optimize time differs from doing so with respect to energy (e.g., Joules).

  • Jee Whan Choi, Richard Vuduc. “A roofline model of energy.” Technical report no. GT-CSE-12-01, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Atlanta, GA, USA, December 2012. [PDF (452 KiB)]

Abstract

We describe an energy-based analogue of the time-based roofline model of Williams, Waterman, and Patterson (Comm. ACM, 2009). Our goal is to explain—in simple, analytic terms accessible to algorithm designers and performance tuners—how the time, energy, and power to execute an algorithm relate. The model considers an algorithm in terms of operations, concurrency, and memory traffic; and a machine in terms of the time and energy costs per operation or per word of communica- tion. We confirm the basic form of the model experimentally. From this model, we suggest under what conditions we ought to expect an algorithmic time-energy trade-off, and show how algorithm properties may help inform power management.

Subject area: High-Performance Computing
Keywords: performance analysis; power and energy modeling; computational intensity; machine balance; roofline model

Note (January 14, 2013): The above link to the PDF now points to the official version on the Georgia Tech Library’s report repository. If you downloaded an earlier version (dated December 24, 2012), you may wish to re-download this newer version. (The only difference is the addition of Appendix B, made on December 31, 2012.)