X-Git-Url: https://bilbo.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/and/gitweb/hpcc2014.git/blobdiff_plain/0aa640af7dcb1e33350b4ade113575ce81bb0d81..7d0b92f71997765e92ee3bd01ffb432d1e038da2:/hpcc.tex diff --git a/hpcc.tex b/hpcc.tex index 2c7d65d..014366c 100644 --- a/hpcc.tex +++ b/hpcc.tex @@ -40,11 +40,6 @@ \newcommand{\MI}{\mathit{MaxIter}} -\usepackage{array} -\usepackage{color, colortbl} -\newcolumntype{M}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{#1}} -\newcolumntype{Z}[1]{>{\raggedleft}m{#1}} - \begin{document} \title{Simulation of Asynchronous Iterative Numerical Algorithms Using SimGrid} @@ -113,27 +108,27 @@ network, etc.) but also a non-negligible CPU execution time. We consider in this parallel algorithms called \texttt{numerical iterative algorithms} executed in a distributed environment. As their name suggests, these algorithm solves a given problem by successive iterations ($X_{n +1} = f(X_{n})$) from an initial value $X_{0}$ to find an approximate value $X^*$ of the solution with a very low residual error. Several well-known methods -demonstrate the convergence of these algorithms \cite{}. +demonstrate the convergence of these algorithms \cite{BT89,Bahi07}. -Parallelization of such algorithms generally involved the division of the problem into several \emph{pieces} that will +Parallelization of such algorithms generally involved the division of the problem into several \emph{blocks} that will be solved in parallel on multiple processing units. The latter will communicate each intermediate results before a new -iteration starts until the approximate solution is reached. These parallel computations can be performed either in -\emph{synchronous} communication mode where a new iteration begin only when all nodes communications are completed, +iteration starts and until the approximate solution is reached. These parallel computations can be performed either in +\emph{synchronous} mode where a new iteration begin only when all nodes communications are completed, either \emph{asynchronous} mode where processors can continue independently without or few synchronization points. For instance in the \textit{Asynchronous Iterations - Asynchronous Communications (AIAC)} model \cite{bcvc06:ij}, local computations do not need to wait for required data. Processors can then perform their iterations with the data present at that time. Even if the number of iterations required before the convergence is generally greater than for the synchronous case, AIAC algorithms can significantly reduce overall execution times by suppressing idle times due to -synchronizations especially in a grid computing context (see \cite{bcvc06:ij} for more details). +synchronizations especially in a grid computing context (see \cite{Bahi07} for more details). Parallel numerical applications (synchronous or asynchronous) may have different configuration and deployment -requirements. Quantifying their performance of resource allocation policies and application scheduling algorithms in -grid computing environments under varying load, CPU power and network speeds is very costly, labor intensive and time -consuming \cite{BuRaCa}. The case of AIAC algorithms is even more problematic since they are very sensible to the +requirements. Quantifying their resource allocation policies and application scheduling algorithms in +grid computing environments under varying load, CPU power and network speeds is very costly, very labor intensive and very time +consuming \cite{Calheiros:2011:CTM:1951445.1951450}. The case of AIAC algorithms is even more problematic since they are very sensible to the execution environment context. For instance, variations in the network bandwith (intra and inter- clusters), in the number and the power of nodes, in the number of clusters... can lead to very different number of iterations and so to -very different execution times. In this context, it appears that the use of simulation tools to explore various platform -scenarios and to run enormous numbers of experiments quickly can be very promising. In this way, the use of a simulation +very different execution times. Then, it appears that the use of simulation tools to explore various platform +scenarios and to run large numbers of experiments quickly can be very promising. In this way, the use of a simulation environment to execute parallel iterative algorithms found some interests in reducing the highly cost of access to computing resources: (1) for the applications development life cycle and in code debugging (2) and in production to get results in a reasonable execution time with a simulated infrastructure not accessible with physical resources. Indeed, @@ -142,15 +137,17 @@ environment challenges to find optimal configurations giving the best results wi best of execution time. To our knowledge, there is no existing work on the large-scale simulation of a real AIAC application. The aim of this -paper is to give a first approach of the simulation of AIAC algorithms using the SimGrid toolkit \cite{SimGrid}. We had -in the scope of this work implemented a program for solving large non-symmetric linear system of equations by numerical -method GMRES (Generalized Minimal Residual). SimGrid had allowed us to launch the application from a modest computing -infrastructure by simulating different distributed architectures composed by clusters nodes interconnected by variable -speed networks. The simulated results we obtained are in line with real results exposed in ?? In addition, it has been -permitted to show the effectiveness of asynchronous mode algorithm by comparing its performance with the synchronous -mode time. With selected parameters on the network platforms (bandwidth, latency of inter cluster network) and on the -clusters architecture (number, capacity calculation power) in the simulated environment, the experimental results have -demonstrated not only the algorithm convergence within a reasonable time compared with the physical environment +paper is twofold. First we give a first approach of the simulation of AIAC algorithms using a simulation tool (i.e. the +SimGrid toolkit \cite{SimGrid}). Second, we confirm the effectiveness of asynchronous mode algorithms by comparing their +performance with the synchronous mode. More precisely, we had implemented a program for solving large non-symmetric +linear system of equations by numerical method GMRES (Generalized Minimal Residual) []. We show, that with minor +modifications of the initial MPI code, the SimGrid toolkit allows us to perform a test campain of a real AIAC +application on different computing architectures. The simulated results we obtained are in line with real results +exposed in ??. SimGrid had allowed us to launch the application from a modest computing infrastructure by simulating +different distributed architectures composed by clusters nodes interconnected by variable speed networks. It has been +permitted to show With selected parameters on the network platforms (bandwidth, latency of inter cluster network) and +on the clusters architecture (number, capacity calculation power) in the simulated environment, the experimental results +have demonstrated not only the algorithm convergence within a reasonable time compared with the physical environment performance, but also a time saving of up to \np[\%]{40} in asynchronous mode. This article is structured as follows: after this introduction, the next section will give a brief description of @@ -163,7 +160,7 @@ carried out will be presented before some concluding remarks and future works. As exposed in the introduction, parallel iterative methods are now widely used in many scientific domains. They can be classified in three main classes depending on how iterations and communications are managed (for more details readers -can refer to \cite{bcvc02:ip}). In the \textit{Synchronous Iterations - Synchronous Communications (SISC)} model data +can refer to \cite{bcvc06:ij}). In the \textit{Synchronous Iterations - Synchronous Communications (SISC)} model data are exchanged at the end of each iteration. All the processors must begin the same iteration at the same time and important idle times on processors are generated. The \textit{Synchronous Iterations - Asynchronous Communications (SIAC)} model can be compared to the previous one except that data required on another processor are sent asynchronously @@ -208,16 +205,18 @@ iterations and so to very different execution times. SimGrid~\cite{casanova+legrand+quinson.2008.simgrid,SimGrid} is a simulation framework to sudy the behavior of large-scale distributed systems. As its name says, it emanates from the grid computing community, but is nowadays used to -study grids, clouds, HPC or peer-to-peer systems. -%- open source, developped since 1999, one of the major solution in the field -% +study grids, clouds, HPC or peer-to-peer systems. The early versions of SimGrid +date from 1999, but it's still actively developped and distributed as an open +source software. Today, it's one of the major generic tools in the field of +simulation for large-scale distributed systems. + SimGrid provides several programming interfaces: MSG to simulate Concurrent Sequential Processes, SimDAG to simulate DAGs of (parallel) tasks, and SMPI to run real applications written in MPI~\cite{MPI}. Apart from the native C interface, SimGrid provides bindings for the C++, Java, Lua and Ruby programming languages. The SMPI interface supports applications written in C or Fortran, -with little or no modifications. -%- implements most of MPI-2 \cite{ref} standard [CHECK] +with little or no modifications. SMPI implements about \np[\%]{80} of the MPI +2.0 standard~\cite{bedaride:hal-00919507}. %%% explain simulation %- simulated processes folded in one real process @@ -231,12 +230,10 @@ with little or no modifications. %%% validation + refs -\AG{Décrire SimGrid~\cite{casanova+legrand+quinson.2008.simgrid,SimGrid} (Arnaud)} - %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \section{Simulation of the multisplitting method} %Décrire le problème (algo) traité ainsi que le processus d'adaptation à SimGrid. -Let $Ax=b$ be a large sparse system of $n$ linear equations in $\mathbb{R}$, where $A$ is a sparse square and nonsingular matrix, $x$ is the solution vector and $b$ is the right-hand side vector. We use a multisplitting method based on the block Jacobi splitting to solve this linear system on a large scale platform composed of $L$ clusters of processors. In this case, we apply a row-by-row splitting without overlapping +Let $Ax=b$ be a large sparse system of $n$ linear equations in $\mathbb{R}$, where $A$ is a sparse square and nonsingular matrix, $x$ is the solution vector and $b$ is the right-hand side vector. We use a multisplitting method based on the block Jacobi splitting to solve this linear system on a large scale platform composed of $L$ clusters of processors~\cite{o1985multi}. In this case, we apply a row-by-row splitting without overlapping \[ \left(\begin{array}{ccc} A_{11} & \cdots & A_{1L} \\ @@ -333,31 +330,30 @@ where $\MI$ is the maximum number of outer iterations and $\epsilon$ is the tole \section{Experimental results} -When the \emph{real} application runs in the simulation environment and produces -the expected results, varying the input parameters and the program arguments -allows us to compare outputs from the code execution. We have noticed from this -study that the results depend on the following parameters: (1) at the network -level, we found that the most critical values are the bandwidth (bw) and the -network latency (lat). (2) Hosts power (GFlops) can also influence on the -results. And finally, (3) when submitting job batches for execution, the -arguments values passed to the program like the maximum number of iterations or -the \emph{external} precision are critical to ensure not only the convergence of the -algorithm but also to get the main objective of the experimentation of the -simulation in having an execution time in asynchronous less than in synchronous -mode, in others words, in having a \emph{speedup} less than 1 -({speedup}${}={}${execution time in synchronous mode}${}/{}${execution time in -asynchronous mode}). - -A priori, obtaining a speedup less than 1 would be difficult in a local area +When the \emph{real} application runs in the simulation environment and produces the expected results, varying the input +parameters and the program arguments allows us to compare outputs from the code execution. We have noticed from this +study that the results depend on the following parameters: +\begin{itemize} +\item At the network level, we found that +the most critical values are the bandwidth (bw) and the network latency (lat). +\item Hosts power (GFlops) can also +influence on the results. +\item Finally, when submitting job batches for execution, the arguments values passed to the +program like the maximum number of iterations or the \emph{external} precision are critical. They allow to ensure not +only the convergence of the algorithm but also to get the main objective of the experimentation of the simulation in +having an execution time in asynchronous less than in synchronous mode (i.e. speed-up less than $1$). +\end{itemize} + +A priori, obtaining a speedup less than $1$ would be difficult in a local area network configuration where the synchronous mode will take advantage on the rapid exchange of information on such high-speed links. Thus, the methodology adopted was to launch the application on clustered network. In this last configuration, degrading the inter-cluster network performance will \emph{penalize} the synchronous -mode allowing to get a speedup lower than 1. This action simulates the case of +mode allowing to get a speedup lower than $1$. This action simulates the case of clusters linked with long distance network like Internet. As a first step, the algorithm was run on a network consisting of two clusters -containing fifty hosts each, totaling one hundred hosts. Various combinations of +containing $50$ hosts each, totaling $100$ hosts. Various combinations of the above factors have providing the results shown in Table~\ref{tab.cluster.2x50} with a matrix size ranging from $N_x = N_y = N_z = 62 \text{ to } 171$ elements or from $62^{3} = \np{238328}$ to $171^{3} = @@ -365,48 +361,91 @@ Table~\ref{tab.cluster.2x50} with a matrix size ranging from $N_x = N_y = N_z = \begin{table}[!t] \centering - \caption{2 clusters, each with 50 nodes} + \caption{$2$ clusters, each with $50$ nodes} \label{tab.cluster.2x50} - - \tiny - -\begin{tabular}{|Z{0.55cm}|Z{0.25cm}|Z{0.25cm}|M{0.25cm}|Z{0.25cm}|M{0.25cm}|M{0.25cm}|M{0.25cm}|M{0.25cm}|M{0.25cm}|M{0.25cm}|M{0.25cm}|M{0.25cm}|M{0.25cm}|} - \hline - \bf bw & 5 &5 & 5 & 5 & 5 & 50 & 50 & 50 & 50 & 50 & 10 & 10\\ - \hline - \bf lat & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.03 & 0.01\\ - \hline - \bf power & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1 & 1.5\\ \hline \bf size & 62 & 62 & 62 & 100 & 100 & 110 & 120& 130 & 140 & 150 & 171 & 171\\ \hline - \bf Prec/Eprec & 10$^{-5}$ & 10$^{-8}$ & 10$^{-9}$ & 10$^{-11}$ & 10$^{-11}$ & 10$^{-11}$ & 10$^{-11}$ & 10$^{-11}$ & 10$^{-11}$ & 10$^{-11}$ & 10$^{-5}$ & 10$^{-5}$\\ \hline - \bf speedup & 0.396 & 0.392 & 0.396 & 0.391 & 0.393 & 0.395 & 0.398 & 0.388 & 0.393 & 0.394 & 0.63 & 0.778\\ \hline - \end{tabular} -\end{table} + \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} + + \begin{tabular}{|>{\bfseries}r|*{12}{c|}} + \hline + bw + & 5 & 5 & 5 & 5 & 5 & 50 \\ + \hline + lat + & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 \\ + \hline + power + & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1.5 \\ + \hline + size + & 62 & 62 & 62 & 100 & 100 & 110 \\ + \hline + Prec/Eprec + & \np{E-5} & \np{E-8} & \np{E-9} & \np{E-11} & \np{E-11} & \np{E-11} \\ + \hline + speedup + & 0.396 & 0.392 & 0.396 & 0.391 & 0.393 & 0.395 \\ + \hline + \end{tabular} + + \smallskip + + \begin{tabular}{|>{\bfseries}r|*{12}{c|}} + \hline + bw + & 50 & 50 & 50 & 50 & 10 & 10 \\ + \hline + lat + & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.03 & 0.01 \\ + \hline + power + & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1 & 1.5 \\ + \hline + size + & 120 & 130 & 140 & 150 & 171 & 171 \\ + \hline + Prec/Eprec + & \np{E-11} & \np{E-11} & \np{E-11} & \np{E-11} & \np{E-5} & \np{E-5} \\ + \hline + speedup + & 0.398 & 0.388 & 0.393 & 0.394 & 0.63 & 0.778 \\ + \hline + \end{tabular} +\end{table} Then we have changed the network configuration using three clusters containing -respectively 33, 33 and 34 hosts, or again by on hundred hosts for all the +respectively $33$, $33$ and $34$ hosts, or again by on hundred hosts for all the clusters. In the same way as above, a judicious choice of key parameters has permitted to get the results in Table~\ref{tab.cluster.3x33} which shows the -speedups less than 1 with a matrix size from 62 to 100 elements. +speedups less than $1$ with a matrix size from $62$ to $100$ elements. \begin{table}[!t] \centering - \caption{3 clusters, each with 33 nodes} + \caption{$3$ clusters, each with $33$ nodes} \label{tab.cluster.3x33} - - \tiny - -\begin{tabular}{|Z{0.55cm}|Z{0.25cm}|Z{0.25cm}|M{0.25cm}|Z{0.25cm}|M{0.25cm}|M{0.25cm}|} - \hline - \bf bw & 10 &5 & 4 & 3 & 2 & 6\\ \hline - \bf lat & 0.01 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02\\ - \hline - \bf power & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1\\ \hline - \bf size & 62 & 100 & 100 & 100 & 100 & 171\\ \hline - \bf Prec/Eprec & 10$^{-5}$ & 10$^{-5}$ & 10$^{-5}$ & 10$^{-5}$ & 10$^{-5}$ & 10$^{-5}$\\ \hline - \bf speedup & 0.997 & 0.99 & 0.93 & 0.84 & 0.78 & 0.99\\ - \hline - \end{tabular} -\end{table} + \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} + + \begin{tabular}{|>{\bfseries}r|*{6}{c|}} + \hline + bw + & 10 & 5 & 4 & 3 & 2 & 6 \\ + \hline + lat + & 0.01 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 \\ + \hline + power + & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\ + \hline + size + & 62 & 100 & 100 & 100 & 100 & 171 \\ + \hline + Prec/Eprec + & \np{E-5} & \np{E-5} & \np{E-5} & \np{E-5} & \np{E-5} & \np{E-5} \\ + \hline + speedup + & 0.997 & 0.99 & 0.93 & 0.84 & 0.78 & 0.99 \\ + \hline + \end{tabular} +\end{table} In a final step, results of an execution attempt to scale up the three clustered @@ -417,23 +456,24 @@ Table~\ref{tab.cluster.3x67}. \centering \caption{3 clusters, each with 66 nodes} \label{tab.cluster.3x67} - - \tiny -\begin{tabular}{|M{0.55cm}|M{0.25cm}|} - \hline - \bf bw & 1\\ \hline - \bf lat & 0.02\\ - \hline - \bf power & 1\\ - \hline - \bf size & 62\\ - \hline - \bf Prec/Eprec & 10$^{-5}$\\ - \hline - \bf speedup & 0.9\\ - \hline + \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} + + \begin{tabular}{|>{\bfseries}r|c|} + \hline + bw & 1 \\ + \hline + lat & 0.02 \\ + \hline + power & 1 \\ + \hline + size & 62 \\ + \hline + Prec/Eprec & \np{E-5} \\ + \hline + speedup & 0.9 \\ + \hline \end{tabular} -\end{table} +\end{table} Note that the program was run with the following parameters: @@ -472,21 +512,21 @@ bandwidth, a latency in order of a hundredth of a millisecond and a system power of one GFlops, an efficiency of about \np[\%]{40} in asynchronous mode is obtained for a matrix size of 62 elements. It is noticed that the result remains stable even if we vary the external precision from \np{E-5} to \np{E-9}. By -increasing the problem size up to 100 elements, it was necessary to increase the +increasing the problem size up to $100$ elements, it was necessary to increase the CPU power of \np[\%]{50} to \np[GFlops]{1.5} for a convergence of the algorithm with the same order of asynchronous mode efficiency. Maintaining such a system power but this time, increasing network throughput inter cluster up to \np[Mbits/s]{50}, the result of efficiency of about \np[\%]{40} is obtained with -high external precision of \np{E-11} for a matrix size from 110 to 150 side +high external precision of \np{E-11} for a matrix size from $110$ to $150$ side elements. -For the 3 clusters architecture including a total of 100 hosts, +For the $3$ clusters architecture including a total of 100 hosts, Table~\ref{tab.cluster.3x33} shows that it was difficult to have a combination which gives an efficiency of asynchronous below \np[\%]{80}. Indeed, for a -matrix size of 62 elements, equality between the performance of the two modes +matrix size of $62$ elements, equality between the performance of the two modes (synchronous and asynchronous) is achieved with an inter cluster of \np[Mbits/s]{10} and a latency of \np[ms]{E-1}. To challenge an efficiency by -\np[\%]{78} with a matrix size of 100 points, it was necessary to degrade the +\np[\%]{78} with a matrix size of $100$ points, it was necessary to degrade the inter cluster network bandwidth from 5 to 2 Mbit/s. A last attempt was made for a configuration of three clusters but more powerful @@ -526,7 +566,7 @@ mode in a grid architecture. \section*{Acknowledgment} - +This work is partially funded by the Labex ACTION program (contract ANR-11-LABX-01-01). The authors would like to thank\dots{}