MPI-2 One-sided Communication Research Articles

Scalable detection of MPI-2 remote memory access inefficiency patterns

Wait states in parallel applications can be identified by scanning event traces for characteristic patterns. In our earlier work we defined such inefficiency patterns for MPI-2 one-sided communication, although still based on a serial trace-analysis scheme with limited scalability. In this article we show how wait states in one-sided communications can be detected in a more scalable fashion by taking advantage of a new scalable trace-analysis approach based on a parallel replay, which was originally developed for MPI-1 point-to-point and collective communication. Moreover, we demonstrate the scalability of our method and its usefulness for the optimization cycle with applications running on up to 32,768 cores.