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Performance-Portable Many-Core Plasma Simulations: Porting PIConGPU to OpenPower and Beyond

Erik Zenker, Rene Widera, Axel Hubl, Guido Juckeland, Andreas Knupfer, Wolfgang E. Nagel, Michael Bussmann
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
arXiv:1606.02862 [cs.DC], (9 Jun 2016)

@article{zenker2016performanceportable,

   title={Performance-Portable Many-Core Plasma Simulations: Porting PIConGPU to OpenPower and Beyond},

   author={Zenker, Erik and Widera, Rene and Hubl, Axel and Juckeland, Guido and Knupfer, Andreas and Nagel, Wolfgang E. and Bussmann, Michael},

   year={2016},

   month={jun},

   archivePrefix={"arXiv"},

   primaryClass={cs.DC}

}

With the appearance of the heterogeneous platform OpenPower,many-core accelerator devices have been coupled with Power host processors for the first time. Towards utilizing their full potential, it is worth investigating performance portable algorithms that allow to choose the best-fitting hardware for each domain-specific compute task. Suiting even the high level of parallelism on modern GPGPUs, our presented approach relies heavily on abstract meta-programming techniques, which are essential to focus on fine-grained tuning rather than code porting. With this in mind, the CUDA-based open-source plasma simulation code PIConGPU is currently being abstracted to support the heterogeneous OpenPower platform using our fast porting interface cupla, which wraps the abstract parallel C++11 kernel acceleration library Alpaka. We demonstrate how PIConGPU can benefit from the tunable kernel execution strategies of the Alpaka library, achieving portability and performance with single-source kernels on conventional CPUs, Power8 CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs.
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