X-Git-Url: https://bilbo.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/and/gitweb/rce2015.git/blobdiff_plain/d82538505eacc4b261cdfde4170ad69f2956c048..28c087d41ba7fc0a10381aa9d9f1d9b1d48240f1:/paper.tex diff --git a/paper.tex b/paper.tex index 1b7b9eb..5122a84 100644 --- a/paper.tex +++ b/paper.tex @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Email:~\email{l.zianekhodja@ulg.ac.be} } -\begin{abstract} The behavior of multi-core applications is always a challenge +\begin{abstract} The behavior of multi-core applications is always a challenge to predict, especially with a new architecture for which no experiment has been performed. With some applications, it is difficult, if not impossible, to build accurate performance models. That is why another solution is to use a simulation @@ -102,19 +102,23 @@ tool which allows us to change many parameters of the architecture (network bandwidth, latency, number of processors) and to simulate the execution of such applications. The main contribution of this paper is to show that the use of a simulation tool (here we have decided to use the SimGrid toolkit) can really -help developpers to better tune their applications for a given multi-core +help developers to better tune their applications for a given multi-core architecture. -In particular we focus our attention on two parallel iterative algorithms based -on the Multisplitting algorithm and we compare them to the GMRES algorithm. -These algorithms are used to solve linear systems. Two different variants of -the Multisplitting are studied: one using synchronoous iterations and another -one with asynchronous iterations. For each algorithm we have simulated +%In particular we focus our attention on two parallel iterative algorithms based +%on the Multisplitting algorithm and we compare them to the GMRES algorithm. +%These algorithms are used to solve linear systems. Two different variants of +%the Multisplitting are studied: one using synchronoous iterations and another +%one with asynchronous iterations. +In this paper we focus our attention on the simulation of iterative algorithms to solve sparse linear systems on large clusters. We study the behavior of the widely used GMRES algorithm and two different variants of the Multisplitting algorithms: one using synchronous iterations and another one with asynchronous iterations. +For each algorithm we have simulated different architecture parameters to evaluate their influence on the overall -execution time. The obtain simulated results confirm the real results -previously obtained on different real multi-core architectures and also confirm -the efficiency of the asynchronous multisplitting algorithm compared to the -synchronous GMRES method. +execution time. +%The obtain simulated results confirm the real results +%previously obtained on different real multi-core architectures and also confirm +%the efficiency of the asynchronous Multisplitting algorithm compared to the +%synchronous GMRES method. +The simulations confirm the real results previously obtained on different real multi-core architectures and also confirm the efficiency of the asynchronous Multisplitting algorithm on distant clusters compared to the synchronous GMRES algorithm. \end{abstract} @@ -625,9 +629,7 @@ speed inter-cluster network (N1) and also on a less performant network (N2). Figure~\ref{fig:02} shows that end users will reduce the execution time for both algorithms when using a grid architecture like 4x16 or 8x8: the reduction is about $2$. The results depict also that when the network speed drops down (variation of 12.5\%), the difference between the two Multisplitting algorithms execution times can reach more than 25\%. -%\RC{c'est pas clair : la différence entre quoi et quoi?} -%\DL{pas clair} -%\RCE{Modifie} + %\begin{wrapfigure}{l}{100mm} @@ -772,10 +774,16 @@ on the algorithms performance in varying the CPU power of the clusters nodes from $1$ to $19$ GFlops. The outputs depicted in Figure~\ref{fig:06} confirm the performance gain, around $95\%$ for both of the two methods, after adding more powerful CPU. +\ \\ +%\DL{il faut une conclusion sur ces tests : ils confirment les résultats déjà +%obtenus en grandeur réelle. Donc c'est une aide précieuse pour les dev. Pas +%besoin de déployer sur une archi réelle} -\DL{il faut une conclusion sur ces tests : ils confirment les résultats déjà -obtenus en grandeur réelle. Donc c'est une aide précieuse pour les dev. Pas -besoin de déployer sur une archi réelle} +To conclude these series of experiments, with SimGrid we have been able to make +many simulations with many parameters variations. Doing all these experiments +with a real platform is most of the time not possible. Moreover the behavior of +both GMRES and Krylov multisplitting methods is in accordance with larger real +executions on large scale supercomputer~\cite{couturier15}. \subsection{Comparing GMRES in native synchronous mode and the multisplitting algorithm in asynchronous mode} @@ -822,7 +830,7 @@ Again, comprehensive and extensive tests have been conducted with different parameters as the CPU power, the network parameters (bandwidth and latency) and with different problem size. The relative gains greater than $1$ between the two algorithms have been captured after each step of the test. In -Figure~\ref{fig:07} are reported the best grid configurations allowing +Table~\ref{tab:08} are reported the best grid configurations allowing the multisplitting method to be more than $2.5$ times faster than the classical GMRES. These experiments also show the relative tolerance of the multisplitting algorithm when using a low speed network as usually observed with @@ -837,7 +845,7 @@ geographically distant clusters through the internet. \end{tabular}} -\begin{figure}[!t] +\begin{table}[!t] \centering %\begin{table} % \caption{Relative gain of the multisplitting algorithm compared with the classical GMRES} @@ -864,10 +872,9 @@ geographically distant clusters through the internet. \hline \end{mytable} %\end{table} - \caption{Relative gain of the multisplitting algorithm compared with the classical GMRES -\AG{C'est un tableau, pas une figure}} - \label{fig:07} -\end{figure} + \caption{Relative gain of the multisplitting algorithm compared with the classical GMRES} + \label{tab:08} +\end{table} \section{Conclusion}