Performance analysis of Intel multiprocessors using astrophysics simulations
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Simon, Tyler A., William A. Ward Jr., and Alan P. Boss. “Performance Analysis of Intel Multiprocessors Using Astrophysics Simulations.” Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 24, no. 2 (January 18, 2012): 155–66. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1888.
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This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.
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This paper provides a performance evaluation and investigation of the astrophysics code FLASH for a variety of Intel multiprocessors. This work was performed at the NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) on behalf of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW) as a study preliminary to the acquisition of a high-performance computing (HPC) system at the CIW and for the NCCS itself to measure the relative performance of a recently acquired Intel Nehalem-based system against previously installed multicore HPC resources. A brief overview of computer performance evaluation is provided, followed by a description of the systems under test, a description of the FLASH test problem, and the test results. Additionally, the paper characterizes some of the effects of load imbalance imposed by adaptive mesh refinement. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.