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SPEC Benchmarks for Large Systems

SPEC Benchmarks for Large Systems Matthias Mueller, Kumaran Kalyanasundaram, G. Gaertner, W. Jones, R. Eigenmann, R. Lieberman, M. van Waveren, and B. Whitney SPEC High Performance Group mueller@hlrs.de. What is SPEC?.

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SPEC Benchmarks for Large Systems

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  1. SPEC Benchmarks for Large Systems Matthias Mueller, Kumaran Kalyanasundaram, G. Gaertner, W. Jones, R. Eigenmann, R. Lieberman, M. van Waveren, and B. Whitney SPEC High Performance Group mueller@hlrs.de

  2. What is SPEC? The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers. SPEC develops suites of benchmarks and also reviews and publishes submitted results from our member organizations and other benchmark licensees.

  3. SPEC High-Performance Group • Founded in 1994 • Mission: To establish, maintain, and endorse a suite of benchmarks that are representative of real-world high-performance computing applications. • SPEC/HPG includes members from both industry and academia. • Benchmark products: • SPEC OMP (OMPM2001, OMPL2001) • SPEC HPC2002 released at SC 2002

  4. Currently active SPEC HPG Members • Fujitsu • HP • IBM • Intel • SGI • SUN • UNISYS • University of Purdue • University of Stuttgart

  5. Where is SPEC Relative to Other Benchmarks ? There are many metrics, each one has its purpose Raw machine performance: Tflops Microbenchmarks: Stream Algorithmic benchmarks: Linpack Compact Apps/Kernels:NAS benchmarks Application Suites: SPEC User-specific applications: Custom benchmarks

  6. Comparison of different benchmark classes

  7. SPEC OMP • Benchmark suite developed by SPEC HPG (High Performance Group) • Benchmark suite for performance testing of shared memory processor systems • Uses OpenMP versions of SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks and candidates

  8. SPEC OMP/CPU2000 differences • Larger working set sizes, 1.6GB for OMPM2001, 6.5 GB for OMPL2001; it is 200MB for CPU2000 • Longer run times (>1000 s/cpu for CPU2000 vs >10,000 s/cpu for OMP2000 medium) • Focus on SMP systems, and issued by HPG • SPEC OMP based on work for CPU2000, SPEC OMP mixes integer and FP in one suite • OMPM is focused on 4-way to 16-way systems • OMPL is targeting 32-way and larger systems

  9. SPEC OMP Results • 66 submitted results for OMPM • 24 submitted results for OMPL

  10. SPEC OMPL Results: Benchmark with scaling to 128

  11. SPEC OMPL Results: Superlinear scaling of applu

  12. SPEC OMPL Results: Benchmark with scaling to 64

  13. SPEC HPC2002 Benchmark • Full Application benchmarks(including I/O) targeted at HPC platforms • Serial and parallel (OpenMP and/or MPI) • Currently three applications: • SPECenv: weather forecast • SPECseis: seismic processing, used in the search for oil and gas • SPECchem: comp. chemistry, used in chemical and pharmaceutical industries (gamess) • All codes include several data sizes

  14. SPECenv execution models on a Sun Fire 6800 Medium scales better OpenMP best for small size MPI best for medium size

  15. SPEC HPC2002 Results: SPECenv scaling

  16. SPECseis execution models on a Sun Fire 6800 Medium scales better OpenMP scales better than MPI

  17. SPEC HPC2002 Results: SPECseis scaling

  18. SPECchem execution models on a Sun Fire 6800 Medium shows better scalability MPI is better than OpenMP

  19. SPEC HPC2002 Results: SPECchem scaling

  20. Hybrid Execution for SPECchem

  21. Current and Future Work • SPEC HPC: • Update of SPECchem • Improving portability, including tools • Larger datasets • New release of SPEC OMP: • Inclusion of alternative sources • Merge OMPM and OMPL on one CD • Adoption of new benchmark codes: • Should represent a type of computation that is regularly performed on HPC systems • We currently examine CPU2004 for candidates

  22. Conclusion and Summary • Results of OMPL and HPC2002: • Scalability of many programs to 128 CPUs • Best choice of programming model (MPI,OpenMP, hybrid) depends on: • Hardware • Program • Data set size • SPEC HPC will continue to update and improve the benchmark suites.

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