Modeling of NAMD's Network Input/Output on Large PC Clusters Export

@article{citeulike:2998396, abstract = {This study examined the interplay among processor speed, cluster interconnect and file I/O, using parallel applications to quantify interactions. We focused on a common case where multiple compute nodes communicate with a single master node for file accesses. We constructed a predictive model that used time characteristics critical for application performance to estimate the number of nodes beyond which further performance improvement became unattainable. Predictions were experimentally validated with NAMD [12, 14], a representative parallel application designed for molecular dynamics simulation. Such predictions can help guide decision making to improve machine allocations for parallel codes in large clusters.}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, author = {Tran, Nancy and Reed, Daniel A.}, citeulike-article-id = {2998396}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370586}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370586}, doi = {10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370586}, journal = {ipdps}, keywords = {csdl-test}, posted-at = {2008-07-14 09:20:15}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {Modeling of NAMD's Network Input/Output on Large PC Clusters}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370586}, volume = {0}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2998396 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2998396 N2 - This study examined the interplay among processor speed, cluster interconnect and file I/O, using parallel applications to quantify interactions. We focused on a common case where multiple compute nodes communicate with a single master node for file accesses. We constructed a predictive model that used time characteristics critical for application performance to estimate the number of nodes beyond which further performance improvement became unattainable. Predictions were experimentally validated with NAMD [12, 14], a representative parallel application designed for molecular dynamics simulation. Such predictions can help guide decision making to improve machine allocations for parallel codes in large clusters. JF - ipdps AD - Los Alamitos, CA, USA TI - Modeling of NAMD's Network Input/Output on Large PC Clusters PB - IEEE Computer Society VL - 0 KW - csdl-test AU - Tran, Nancy AU - Reed, Daniel PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370586 ER -