Assessing contention effects on MPI_alltoall communications

  • Authors:
  • Luiz Angelo Steffenel;Maxime Martinasso;Denis Trystram

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Nancy-2, LORIA, Nancy, France;Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France;Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

  • Venue:
  • GPC'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Advances in grid and pervasive computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

One of the most important collective communication patterns used in scientific applications is the complete exchange, also called All-to-All. Although efficient algorithms have been studied for specific networks, general solutions like those available in well-known MPI distributions (e.g. the MPI_Alltoall operation) are strongly influenced by the congestion of network resources. In this paper we present an integrated approach to model the performance of the All-to-All collective operation, which consists in identifying a contention signature that characterizes a given network environment, using it to augment a contention-free communication model. This approach, assessed by experimental results, allows an accurate prediction of the performance of the All-to-All operation over different network architectures with a small overhead.