Long-time Simulations with Complex Code Using Multiple Nodes of Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing
| dc.contributor.author | Graf, Jonathan S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gobbert, Matthias K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Khuvis, Samuel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-13T19:52:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-13T19:52:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-08-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Modern partial differential equation (PDE) models across scientific disciplines require sophisticated numerical methods resulting in complex codes as well as large numbers of simulations for analysis like parameter studies and uncertainty quantification. To evaluate the behavior of the model for sufficiently long times, for instance, to compare to laboratory time scales, often requires long-time simulations with small time steps and high mesh resolutions. This motivates the need for very efficient numerical methods and the use of parallel computing on the most recent modern architectures. We use complex code resulting from a PDE model of calcium dynamics in a heart cell to analyze the performance of the recently released Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing (KNL). The KNL is a second-generation many-integrated-core (MIC) processor released in 2016 with a theoretical peak performance of over 3 TFLOP/s of double-precision floating-point operations for which complex codes can be easily ported because of the x86 compatibility of each KNL core. We demonstrate the benefit of hybrid MPI+OpenMP code when implemented effectively and run efficiently on the KNL including on multiple KNL nodes. For multi-KNL runs for our sample code, it is shown to be optimal to use all cores of each KNL, one MPI process on every other tile, and only two of the maximum of four threads per core. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation grant number ACI–1053575 [25]. We acknowledge the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin for providing HPC resources that have contributed to the research results reported within this paper. We also acknowledge the UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF). The facility is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through the MRI program (grant nos. CNS–0821258 and CNS–1228778) and the SCREMS program (grant no. DMS–0821311), with additional substantial support from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Jonathan Graf was supported by UMBC as HPCF RA. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://userpages.umbc.edu/~gobbert/papers/Graf_JCAM2017.pdf | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 23 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles preprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/M2ZK55Q6G | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Jonathan S.Graf, Matthias K.Gobbert, SamuelKhuvis, Long-time simulations with complex code using multiple nodes of Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics Volume 337, pp 18-36, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2017.12.050 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2017.12.050 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/11300 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | ScienceDirect | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Mathematics Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
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| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
| dc.subject | Intel Xeon Phi | en_US |
| dc.subject | Knights Landing | en_US |
| dc.subject | openMP | en_US |
| dc.subject | Parabolic partial differential equations; | en_US |
| dc.subject | Calcium induced calcium release | en_US |
| dc.subject | modelling waves in a heart cell | |
| dc.subject | long-time simulations | |
| dc.subject | parallel computing | |
| dc.subject | calcium dynamics in a heart cell | |
| dc.subject | Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing (KNL) | |
| dc.subject | second-generation many-integrated-core (MIC) processor | |
| dc.subject | UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) | |
| dc.title | Long-time Simulations with Complex Code Using Multiple Nodes of Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |