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Performance Evaluation Activities at NERSC

This presentation discusses the multifaceted roles of performance evaluation activities at NERSC, including sustained system performance, effective system performance, and evaluation of novel architectures. Ongoing activities include technology tracking, vendor internal development, evaluating Linux cluster schedulers, application benchmarking, and I/O workload characterization.

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Performance Evaluation Activities at NERSC

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  1. Performance Evaluation Activities at NERSC Adrian WongAdvanced Systems GroupNERSC User Group MeetingArgonne 5/29/2003

  2. TestingNovelArchitectures ProcurementEvaluation PerformanceModeling SystemMonitoring ProcurementValidation Performance Evaluation: Multifaceted Roles TechnologyTracking

  3. Ongoing Activities • Sustained System Performance (SSP) • Real-world performance metric • Periodically used to track Seaborg • Effective System Performance (ESP) • System parameters – scheduling, job launch,… • A new dimension in procurement testing • Vendor internal development • Evaluating Linux cluster schedulers; Maui, PBS, SGE, etc… • Application Benchmark Suite • Real applications from users • Porting and maintenance • New Architecture Evaluation

  4. Ongoing Activities II • Technology tracking • Opteron, Pentium4 • I/O Workload Characterization (New)

  5. Seaborg-E & Top500 Parry Husbands

  6. ESP2 – System Validation on New Nodes

  7. ESP2 – Comparing Schedulers

  8. Profiling Example – MPI Contributions

  9. x86 Performance Tracking – NAS Serial

  10. I/O Workload Characterization Tracing and Passive Monitoring ofParallel Filesystem Activity

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