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70 \title{Comparative performance analysis of simulated grid-enabled numerical iterative algorithms}
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73 \author{ Charles Emile Ramamonjisoa and
76 Lilia Ziane Khodja and
82 Femto-ST Institute - DISC Department\\
83 Université de Franche-Comté\\
85 Email: \email{{raphael.couturier,arnaud.giersch,david.laiymani,charles.ramamonjisoa}@univ-fcomte.fr}
88 %% Lilia Ziane Khodja: Department of Aerospace \& Mechanical Engineering\\ Non Linear Computational Mechanics\\ University of Liege\\ Liege, Belgium. Email: l.zianekhodja@ulg.ac.be
94 \keywords{Algorithm; distributed; iterative; asynchronous; simulation; simgrid; performance}
98 \section{Introduction}
100 \section{The asynchronous iteration model}
104 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
105 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
107 \section{Two-stage splitting methods}
109 \subsection{Multisplitting methods for sparse linear systems}
111 Let us consider the following sparse linear system of $n$ equations in $\mathbb{R}$
116 where $A$ is a sparse square and nonsingular matrix, $b$ is the right-hand side and $x$ is the solution of the system. The multisplitting methods solve the linear system~(\ref{eq:01}) iteratively as follows
118 x^{k+1}=\displaystyle\sum^L_{\ell=1} E_\ell M^{-1}_\ell (N_\ell x^k + b),~k=1,2,3,\ldots
121 where a collection of $L$ triplets $(M_\ell, N_\ell, E_\ell)$ defines the multisplitting of matrix $A$~\cite{O'leary85,White86}, such that: the different splittings are defined as $A=M_\ell-N_\ell$ where $M_\ell$ are nonsingular matrices, and $\sum_\ell{E_\ell=I}$ are diagonal nonnegative weighting matrices and $I$ is the identity matrix. The iterations of the multisplitting methods can naturally be computed in parallel such that each processor or cluster of processors is responsible for solving one splitting as a linear sub-system
123 M_\ell y_\ell = c_\ell^k,\mbox{~such that~} c_\ell^k = N_\ell x^k + b,
126 then the weighting matrices $E_\ell$ are used to compute the solution of the global system~(\ref{eq:01})
128 x^{k+1}=\displaystyle\sum^L_{\ell=1} E_\ell y_\ell.
131 The convergence of the multisplitting methods, based on synchronous or asynchronous iterations, is studied by many authors for example~\cite{O'leary85,bahi97,Bai99,bahi07}. %It is dependent on the condition
133 %\rho(\displaystyle\sum_{\ell=1}^L E_\ell M^{-1}_\ell N_\ell) < 1,
136 %where $\rho$ is the spectral radius of the square matrix.
137 The multisplitting methods are convergent:
139 \item if $A^{-1}>0$ and the splittings of matrix $A$ are weak regular (i.e. $M^{-1}\geq 0$ and $M^{-1}N\geq 0$) when the iterations are synchronous, or
140 \item if $A$ is M-matrix and its splittings are regular (i.e. $M^{-1}\geq 0$ and $N\geq 0$) when the iterations are asynchronous.
142 The solutions of the different linear sub-systems~(\ref{eq:03}) arising from the multisplitting of matrix $A$ can be either computed exactly with a direct method or approximated with an iterative method. In the latter case, the multisplitting methods are called {\it inner-outer iterative methods} or {\it two-stage multisplitting methods}. This kind of methods uses two nested iterations: the outer iteration and the inner iteration (that of the iterative method).
144 In this paper we are focused on two-stage multisplitting methods, in their both versions synchronous and asynchronous, where the well-known iterative method GMRES ({\it Generalized Minimal RESidual})~\cite{saad86} is used as an inner iteration. Furthermore, our work in this paper is restricted to the block Jacobi splitting method. This approach of multisplitting consists in partitioning the matrix $A$ into $L$ horizontal band matrices of order $\frac{n}{L}\times n$ without overlapping (i.e. weighting matrices $E_\ell$ have only zero and one factors). In this case, the iteration of the multisplitting method presented by (\ref{eq:03}) and~(\ref{eq:04}) can be rewritten in the following form
146 A_{\ell\ell} x_\ell^{k+1} = b_\ell - \displaystyle\sum^{L}_{\substack{m=1\\m\neq\ell}}{A_{\ell m}x^k_m},\mbox{~for~}\ell=1,\ldots,L\mbox{~and~}k=1,2,3,\ldots
149 where $x_\ell$ are sub-vectors of the solution $x$, $b_\ell$ are the sub-vectors of the right-hand side $b$, and $A_{\ell\ell}$ and $A_{\ell m}$ are diagonal and off-diagonal blocks of matrix $A$ respectively. In each outer iteration $k$ until the convergence, each sub-system arising from the block Jacobi multisplitting
151 A_{\ell\ell} x_\ell = c_\ell,
154 is solved iteratively using GMRES method and independently from other sub-systems by a cluster of processors. The right-hand sides $c_\ell=b_\ell-\sum_{m\neq\ell}A_{\ell m}x_m$ are computed using the shared vectors $x_m$. Algorithm~\ref{alg:01} shows the main key points of the block Jacobi two-stage method executed by a cluster of processors. In line~\ref{solve}, the linear sub-system~(\ref{eq:06}) is solved in parallel using GMRES method where $\MIG$ and $\TOLG$ are the maximum number of iterations and the tolerance threshold respectively.
157 \caption{Block Jacobi two-stage method}
158 \begin{algorithmic}[1]
159 \Input $A_\ell$ (sparse matrix), $b_\ell$ (right-hand side)
160 \Output $x_\ell$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
161 \State Set the initial guess $x^0$
162 \For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until convergence}
163 \State $c_\ell=b_\ell-\sum_{m\neq\ell}A_{\ell m}x_m^{k-1}$
164 \State $x^k_\ell=Solve(A_{\ell\ell},c_\ell,x^{k-1}_\ell,\MIG,\TOLG)$ \label{solve}
165 \State Send $x_\ell^k$ to neighboring clusters
166 \State Receive $\{x_m^k\}_{m\neq\ell}$ from neighboring clusters
172 \subsection{Simulation of two-stage methods using SimGrid framework}
174 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
175 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
177 \section{Experimental, Results and Comments}
180 \textbf{V.1. Setup study and Methodology}
182 To conduct our study, we have put in place the following methodology
183 which can be reused with any grid-enabled applications.
185 \textbf{Step 1} : Choose with the end users the class of algorithms or
186 the application to be tested. Numerical parallel iterative algorithms
187 have been chosen for the study in the paper.
189 \textbf{Step 2} : Collect the software materials needed for the
190 experimentation. In our case, we have three variants algorithms for the
191 resolution of three 3D-Poisson problem: (1) using the classical GMRES alias Algo-1 in this
192 paper, (2) using the multisplitting method alias Algo-2 and (3) an
193 enhanced version of the multisplitting method as Algo-3. In addition,
194 SIMGRID simulator has been chosen to simulate the behaviors of the
195 distributed applications. SIMGRID is running on the Mesocentre
196 datacenter in Franche-Comte University $[$10$]$ but also in a virtual
199 \textbf{Step 3} : Fix the criteria which will be used for the future
200 results comparison and analysis. In the scope of this study, we retain
201 in one hand the algorithm execution mode (synchronous and asynchronous)
202 and in the other hand the execution time and the number of iterations of
203 the application before obtaining the convergence.
205 \textbf{Step 4 }: Setup up the different grid testbeds environment
206 which will be simulated in the simulator tool to run the program. The
207 following architecture has been configured in Simgrid : 2x16 - that is a
208 grid containing 2 clusters with 16 hosts (processors/cores) each -, 4x8,
209 4x16, 8x8 and 2x50. The network has been designed to operate with a
210 bandwidth equals to 10Gbits (resp. 1Gbits/s) and a latency of 8E-6
211 microseconds (resp. 5E-5) for the intra-clusters links (resp.
212 inter-clusters backbone links).
214 \textbf{Step 5}: Process an extensive and comprehensive testings
215 within these configurations in varying the key parameters, especially
216 the CPU power capacity, the network parameters and also the size of the
217 input matrix. Note that some parameters should be invariant to allow the
218 comparison like some program input arguments.
220 \textbf{Step 6} : Collect and analyze the output results.
222 \textbf{ V.2. Factors impacting distributed applications performance in
225 From our previous experience on running distributed application in a
226 computational grid, many factors are identified to have an impact on the
227 program behavior and performance on this specific environment. Mainly,
228 first of all, the architecture of the grid itself can obviously
229 influence the performance results of the program. The performance gain
230 might be important theoretically when the number of clusters and/or the
231 number of nodes (processors/cores) in each individual cluster increase.
233 Another important factor impacting the overall performance of the
234 application is the network configuration. Two main network parameters
235 can modify drastically the program output results : (i) the network
236 bandwidth (bw=bits/s) also known as "the data-carrying capacity"
237 $[$13$]$ of the network is defined as the maximum of data that can pass
238 from one point to another in a unit of time. (ii) the network latency
239 (lat : microsecond) defined as the delay from the start time to send the
240 data from a source and the final time the destination have finished to
241 receive it. Upon the network characteristics, another impacting factor
242 is the application dependent volume of data exchanged between the nodes
243 in the cluster and between distant clusters. Large volume of data can be
244 transferred in transit between the clusters and nodes during the code
247 In a grid environment, it is common to distinguish in one hand, the
248 "\,intra-network" which refers to the links between nodes within a
249 cluster and in the other hand, the "\,inter-network" which is the
250 backbone link between clusters. By design, these two networks perform
251 with different speed. The intra-network generally works like a high
252 speed local network with a high bandwith and very low latency. In
253 opposite, the inter-network connects clusters sometime via heterogeneous
254 networks components thru internet with a lower speed. The network
255 between distant clusters might be a bottleneck for the global
256 performance of the application.
258 \textbf{V.3 Comparing GMRES and Multisplitting algorithms in
261 In the scope of this paper, our first objective is to demonstrate the
262 Algo-2 (Multisplitting method) shows a better performance in grid
263 architecture compared with Algo-1 (Classical GMRES) both running in
264 \textbf{\textit{synchronous mode}}. Better algorithm performance
265 should mean a less number of iterations output and a less execution time
266 before reaching the convergence. For a systematic study, the experiments
267 should figure out that, for various grid parameters values, the
268 simulator will confirm the targeted outcomes, particularly for poor and
269 slow networks, focusing on the impact on the communication performance
270 on the chosen class of algorithm $[$12$]$.
272 The following paragraphs present the test conditions, the output results
276 \textit{3.a Executing the algorithms on various computational grid
277 architecture scaling up the input matrix size}
282 \begin{tabular}{r c }
284 Grid & 2x16, 4x8, 4x16 and 8x8\\ %\hline
285 Network & N2 : bw=1Gbs-lat=5E-05 \\ %\hline
286 Input matrix size & N$_{x}$ =150 x 150 x 150 and\\ %\hline
287 - & N$_{x}$ =170 x 170 x 170 \\ \hline
292 Table 1 : Clusters x Nodes with NX=150 or NX=170
294 \RCE{J'ai voulu mettre les tableaux des données mais je pense que c'est inutile et ça va surcharger}
297 The results in figure 1 show the non-variation of the number of
298 iterations of classical GMRES for a given input matrix size; it is not
299 the case for the multisplitting method.
301 %\begin{wrapfigure}{l}{60mm}
304 \includegraphics[width=60mm]{cluster_x_nodes_nx_150_and_nx_170.pdf}
305 \caption{Cluster x Nodes NX=150 and NX=170}
310 Unless the 8x8 cluster, the time
311 execution difference between the two algorithms is important when
312 comparing between different grid architectures, even with the same number of
313 processors (like 2x16 and 4x8 = 32 processors for example). The
314 experiment concludes the low sensitivity of the multisplitting method
315 (compared with the classical GMRES) when scaling up to higher input
318 \textit{3.b Running on various computational grid architecture}
322 \begin{tabular}{r c }
324 Grid & 2x16, 4x8\\ %\hline
325 Network & N1 : bw=10Gbs-lat=8E-06 \\ %\hline
326 - & N2 : bw=1Gbs-lat=5E-05 \\
327 Input matrix size & N$_{x}$ =150 x 150 x 150\\ \hline \\
331 %Table 2 : Clusters x Nodes - Networks N1 x N2
332 %\RCE{idem pour tous les tableaux de donnees}
335 %\begin{wrapfigure}{l}{60mm}
338 \includegraphics[width=60mm]{cluster_x_nodes_n1_x_n2.pdf}
339 \caption{Cluster x Nodes N1 x N2}
344 The experiments compare the behavior of the algorithms running first on
345 speed inter- cluster network (N1) and a less performant network (N2).
346 The figure 2 shows that end users will gain to reduce the execution time
347 for both algorithms in using a grid architecture like 4x16 or 8x8: the
348 performance was increased in a factor of 2. The results depict also that
349 when the network speed drops down, the difference between the execution
350 times can reach more than 25\%.
352 \textit{\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\3.c Network latency impacts on performance}
356 \begin{tabular}{r c }
358 Grid & 2x16\\ %\hline
359 Network & N1 : bw=1Gbs \\ %\hline
360 Input matrix size & N$_{x}$ =150 x 150 x 150\\ \hline\\
364 Table 3 : Network latency impact
369 \includegraphics[width=60mm]{network_latency_impact_on_execution_time.pdf}
370 \caption{Network latency impact on execution time}
375 According the results in table and figure 3, degradation of the network
376 latency from 8.10$^{-6}$ to 6.10$^{-5}$ implies an absolute time
377 increase more than 75\% (resp. 82\%) of the execution for the classical
378 GMRES (resp. multisplitting) algorithm. In addition, it appears that the
379 multisplitting method tolerates more the network latency variation with
380 a less rate increase. Consequently, in the worst case (lat=6.10$^{-5
381 }$), the execution time for GMRES is almost the double of the time for
382 the multisplitting, even though, the performance was on the same order
383 of magnitude with a latency of 8.10$^{-6}$.
385 \textit{3.d Network bandwidth impacts on performance}
389 \begin{tabular}{r c }
391 Grid & 2x16\\ %\hline
392 Network & N1 : bw=1Gbs - lat=5E-05 \\ %\hline
393 Input matrix size & N$_{x}$ =150 x 150 x 150\\ \hline
397 Table 4 : Network bandwidth impact
401 \includegraphics[width=60mm]{network_bandwith_impact_on_execution_time.pdf}
402 \caption{Network bandwith impact on execution time}
408 The results of increasing the network bandwidth depict the improvement
409 of the performance by reducing the execution time for both of the two
410 algorithms. However, and again in this case, the multisplitting method
411 presents a better performance in the considered bandwidth interval with
412 a gain of 40\% which is only around 24\% for classical GMRES.
414 \textit{3.e Input matrix size impacts on performance}
418 \begin{tabular}{r c }
421 Network & N2 : bw=1Gbs - lat=5E-05 \\ %\hline
422 Input matrix size & N$_{x}$ = From 40 to 200\\ \hline
426 Table 5 : Input matrix size impact
430 \includegraphics[width=60mm]{pb_size_impact_on_execution_time.pdf}
431 \caption{Pb size impact on execution time}
435 In this experimentation, the input matrix size has been set from
436 Nx=Ny=Nz=40 to 200 side elements that is from 40$^{3}$ = 64.000 to
437 200$^{3}$ = 8.000.000 points. Obviously, as shown in the figure 5,
438 the execution time for the algorithms convergence increases with the
439 input matrix size. But the interesting result here direct on (i) the
440 drastic increase (300 times) of the number of iterations needed before
441 the convergence for the classical GMRES algorithm when the matrix size
442 go beyond Nx=150; (ii) the classical GMRES execution time also almost
443 the double from Nx=140 compared with the convergence time of the
444 multisplitting method. These findings may help a lot end users to setup
445 the best and the optimal targeted environment for the application
446 deployment when focusing on the problem size scale up. Note that the
447 same test has been done with the grid 2x16 getting the same conclusion.
449 \textit{3.f CPU Power impact on performance}
453 \begin{tabular}{r c }
455 Grid & 2x16\\ %\hline
456 Network & N2 : bw=1Gbs - lat=5E-05 \\ %\hline
457 Input matrix size & N$_{x}$ = 150 x 150 x 150\\ \hline
461 Table 6 : CPU Power impact
465 \includegraphics[width=60mm]{cpu_power_impact_on_execution_time.pdf}
466 \caption{CPU Power impact on execution time}
470 Using the SIMGRID simulator flexibility, we have tried to determine the
471 impact on the algorithms performance in varying the CPU power of the
472 clusters nodes from 1 to 19 GFlops. The outputs depicted in the figure 6
473 confirm the performance gain, around 95\% for both of the two methods,
474 after adding more powerful CPU. Note that the execution time axis in the
475 figure is in logarithmic scale.
477 \textbf{V.4 Comparing GMRES in native synchronous mode and
478 Multisplitting algorithms in asynchronous mode}
480 The previous paragraphs put in evidence the interests to simulate the
481 behavior of the application before any deployment in a real environment.
482 We have focused the study on analyzing the performance in varying the
483 key factors impacting the results. In the same line, the study compares
484 the performance of the two proposed methods in \textbf{synchronous mode
485 }. In this section, with the same previous methodology, the goal is to
486 demonstrate the efficiency of the multisplitting method in \textbf{
487 asynchronous mode} compare with the classical GMRES staying in the
490 Note that the interest of using the asynchronous mode for data exchange
491 is mainly, in opposite of the synchronous mode, the non-wait aspects of
492 the current computation after a communication operation like sending
493 some data between nodes. Each processor can continue their local
494 calculation without waiting for the end of the communication. Thus, the
495 asynchronous may theoretically reduce the overall execution time and can
496 improve the algorithm performance.
498 As stated supra, SIMGRID simulator tool has been used to prove the
499 efficiency of the multisplitting in asynchronous mode and to find the
500 best combination of the grid resources (CPU, Network, input matrix size,
501 \ldots ) to get the highest "\,relative gain" in comparison with the
502 classical GMRES time.
505 The test conditions are summarized in the table below :
509 \begin{tabular}{r c }
511 Grid & 2x50 totaling 100 processors\\ %\hline
512 Processors & 1 GFlops to 1.5 GFlops\\
513 Intra-Network & bw=1.25 Gbits - lat=5E-05 \\ %\hline
514 Inter-Network & bw=5 Mbits - lat=2E-02\\
515 Input matrix size & N$_{x}$ = From 62 to 150\\ %\hline
516 Residual error precision: 10$^{-5}$ to 10$^{-9}$\\ \hline
520 Again, comprehensive and extensive tests have been conducted varying the
521 CPU power and the network parameters (bandwidth and latency) in the
522 simulator tool with different problem size. The relative gains greater
523 than 1 between the two algorithms have been captured after each step of
524 the test. Table I below has recorded the best grid configurations
525 allowing a multiplitting method time more than 2.5 times lower than
526 classical GMRES execution and convergence time. The finding thru this
527 experimentation is the tolerance of the multisplitting method under a
528 low speed network that we encounter usually with distant clusters thru the
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541 \caption{Relative gain of the multisplitting algorithm compared with
543 \label{tab.cluster.2x50}
548 & 5 & 5 & 5 & 5 & 5 & 50 \\
551 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 \\
554 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1.5 \\
557 & 62 & 62 & 62 & 100 & 100 & 110 \\
560 & \np{E-5} & \np{E-8} & \np{E-9} & \np{E-11} & \np{E-11} & \np{E-11} \\
563 & 0.396 & 0.392 & 0.396 & 0.391 & 0.393 & 0.395 \\
572 & 50 & 50 & 50 & 50 & 10 & 10 \\
575 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.02 & 0.03 & 0.01 \\
578 & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1.5 & 1 & 1.5 \\
581 & 120 & 130 & 140 & 150 & 171 & 171 \\
584 & \np{E-11} & \np{E-11} & \np{E-11} & \np{E-11} & \np{E-5} & \np{E-5} \\
587 & 0.398 & 0.388 & 0.393 & 0.394 & 0.63 & 0.778 \\
596 \section*{Acknowledgment}
599 The authors would like to thank\dots{}
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