Optimization and Performance of a Fortran 90 MPI-Based Unstructured Code on Large-Scale Parallel Systems

Authors:
Dale Shires;Ram Mohan
Affiliations:
U.S. Army Research Laboratory, APG, MD, U.S.A.;University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.
Venue:
The Journal of Supercomputing
Year:
2003

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Abstract

The message-passing interface (MPI) has become the standard in achieving effective results when using the message passing paradigm of parallelization. Codes written using MPI are extremely portable and are applicable to both clusters and massively parallel computing platforms. Since MPI uses the single program, multiple data (SPMD) approach to parallelism, good performance requires careful tuning of the serial code as well as careful data and control flow analysis to limit communication. We discuss optimization strategies used and their degree of success to increase performance of an MPI-based unstructured finite element simulation code written in Fortran 90. We discuss performance results based on implementations using several modern massively parallel computing platforms including the SGI Origin 3800, IBM Nighthawk 2 SMP, and Cray T3E-1200.