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Optimization of communication intensive applications on HPC networks
Jain, Nikhil
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/90472
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- Title
- Optimization of communication intensive applications on HPC networks
- Author(s)
- Jain, Nikhil
- Issue Date
- 2016-02-12
- Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
- Kalé, Laxmikant V
- Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
- Kalé, Laxmikant V
- Committee Member(s)
- Gropp, William D.
- Torrellas, Josep
- Panda, Dhabaleswar K.
- Department of Study
- Computer Science
- Discipline
- Computer Science
- Degree Granting Institution
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Degree Name
- Ph.D.
- Degree Level
- Dissertation
- Keyword(s)
- Network
- Communication
- Parallel computing
- Applications
- Simulation
- Modeling
- Prediction
- Machine learning
- Topology-aware mapping
- Abstract
- Communication is a necessary but overhead inducing component of parallel programming. Its impact on application design and performance is due to several related aspects of a parallel job execution: network topology, routing protocol, suitability of algorithm being used to the network, job placement, etc. This thesis is aimed at developing an understanding of how communication plays out on networks of high performance computing systems and exploring methods that can be used to improve communication performance of large scale applications. Broadly speaking, three topics have been studied in detail in this thesis. The first of these topics is task mapping and job placement on practical installations of torus and dragonfly networks. Next, use of supervised learning algorithms for conducting diagnostic studies of how communication evolves on networks is explored. Finally, efficacy of packet-level simulations for prediction-based studies of communication performance on different networks using different network parameters is analyzed. The primary contribution of this thesis is development of scalable diagnostic and prediction methods that can assist in the process of network designing, adapting applications to future systems, and optimizing execution of applications on existing systems. These meth- ods include a supervised learning approach, a functional modeling tool (called Damselfly), and a PDES-based packet level simulator (called TraceR), all of which are described in this thesis.
- Graduation Semester
- 2016-05
- Type of Resource
- text
- Permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/2142/90472
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2016, Nikhil Jain.
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