Abstract
Parameter sensitivity analysis (SA) is an effective tool to gain knowledge about complex analysis applications and assess the variability in their analysis results. However, it is an expensive process as it requires the execution of the target application multiple times with a large number of different input parameter values. In this work, we propose optimizations to reduce the overall computation cost of SA in the context of analysis applications that segment high-resolution slide tissue images, ie, images with resolutions of 100k × 100k pixels. Two cost-cutting techniques are combined to efficiently execute SA: use of distributed hybrid systems for parallel execution and computation reuse at multiple levels of an analysis pipeline to reduce the amount of computation. These techniques were evaluated using a cancer image analysis workflow on a hybrid cluster with 256 nodes, each with an Intel Phi and a dual socket CPU. Our parallel execution method attained an efficiency of over 90% on 256 nodes. The hybrid execution on the CPU and Intel Phi improved the performance by 2×. Multilevel computation reuse led to performance gains of over 2.9×.
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