• DocumentCode
    1998011
  • Title

    Understanding the Performance of Two Production Supercomputers

  • Author

    Pakin, Scott ; Lang, Michael

  • Author_Institution
    Comput., Comput., & Stat. Sci. Div., Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Los Alamos, NM, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    20-24 May 2013
  • Firstpage
    1345
  • Lastpage
    1354
  • Abstract
    Luna and Typhoon are two Top500 supercomputers running production scientific workloads at LANL. Interestingly, users have reported substantially better-than-expected performance gains from Luna, the newer of the two. In this paper we present our methodology for investigating the source of this improvement and determining what architectural changes for future supercomputers would most benefit LANL applications.
  • Keywords
    mainframes; parallel machines; LANL applications; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Luna; Typhoon; production supercomputers; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Measurement; Production; Sockets; Supercomputers; Typhoons; BLASBench; CacheBench; Luna; Memtime; Partisn; Typhoon; application performance analysis; coNCePTuaL; xRAGE;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops & PhD Forum (IPDPSW), 2013 IEEE 27th International
  • Conference_Location
    Cambridge, MA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-4979-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPDPSW.2013.82
  • Filename
    6651027