Adjusting process count on demand for petascale global optimization
| dc.contributor.author | Sosonkina, Masha | |
| dc.contributor.author | Watson, Layne T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Radcliffe, Nicholas R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Haftka, Rafael T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Trosset, Michael W. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-25T12:40:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-02-25T12:40:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-01 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Sosonkina M, Watson LT, Radcliffe NR, Haftka RT, Trosset MW (2013) Adjusting process count on demand for petascale global optimization. Parallel Computing 39: 21–35. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2012.11.001. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0167-8191 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.parco.2012.11.001 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10754/597469 | |
| dc.description.abstract | There are many challenges that need to be met before efficient and reliable computation at the petascale is possible. Many scientific and engineering codes running at the petascale are likely to be memory intensive, which makes thrashing a serious problem for many petascale applications. One way to overcome this challenge is to use a dynamic number of processes, so that the total amount of memory available for the computation can be increased on demand. This paper describes modifications made to the massively parallel global optimization code pVTdirect in order to allow for a dynamic number of processes. In particular, the modified version of the code monitors memory use and spawns new processes if the amount of available memory is determined to be insufficient. The primary design challenges are discussed, and performance results are presented and analyzed. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The authors thank the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) for use of the Carver cluster, and Aron Ahmadia at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) for use of the Shaheen and Neser clusters. The authors are thankful to the anonymous reviewers for their insights that helped improve the paper. | |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier BV | |
| dc.title | Adjusting process count on demand for petascale global optimization | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.identifier.journal | Parallel Computing | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA | |
| dc.contributor.institution | U.S. DOE Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Department of Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Department of Statistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA |