Poster: mini-applications: vehicles for co-design

Authors:
Richard F. Barrett;Michael A. Heroux;Paul T. Lin;Courtenay T. Vaughan;Alan B. Williams
Affiliations:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA;Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA;Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA;Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA;Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2011 companion on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis Companion
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Application performance is determined by a combination of many choices: hardware plat-form, runtime environment, languages and compilers used, algorithm choice and implementation, and more. In this complicated environment, we find that the use of mini-applications - small self-contained proxies for real applications - is an excellent approach for rapidly exploring the parameter space of all these choices. Furthermore, use of mini-applications enriches the interaction between application, library and computer system developers by providing explicit functioning software and concrete performance results that lead to detailed, focused discussions of design trade-offs, algorithm choices and runtime performance issues. In this poster we discuss a collection of mini-applications and demonstrate how we use them to analyze and improve application performance on new and future computer platforms