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A mechanism for balancing accuracy and scope in cross-machine black-box GPU performance modeling

James D. Stevens
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
arXiv:1904.09538 [cs.PF], (21 Apr 2019)

@misc{stevens2019mechanism,

   title={A mechanism for balancing accuracy and scope in cross-machine black-box GPU performance modeling},

   author={James D. Stevens},

   year={2019},

   eprint={1904.09538},

   archivePrefix={arXiv},

   primaryClass={cs.PF}

}

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The ability to model, analyze, and predict execution time of computations is an important building block supporting numerous efforts, such as load balancing, performance optimization, and automated performance tuning for high performance, parallel applications. In today’s increasingly heterogeneous computing environment, this task must be accomplished efficiently across multiple architectures, including massively parallel coprocessors like GPUs. To address this challenge, we present an approach for constructing customizable, cross-machine performance models for GPU kernels, including a mechanism to automatically and symbolically gather performance-relevant kernel operation counts, a tool for formulating mathematical models using these counts, and a customizable parameterized collection of benchmark kernels used to fit models to GPUs in a black-box fashion. Our approach empowers a user to manage trade-offs between model accuracy, evaluation speed, and generalizability. A user can define a model and customize the fitting process, making it as simple or complex as desired, and as application-targeted or general-purpose as desired. As application examples of our approach, we demonstrate both linear and nonlinear models; each example models execution times for multiple variants of a particular computation: two matrix multiplication variants, four Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) differentiation operation variants, and two 2-D first-order finite difference computation variants. For each variant, we present accuracy results on GPUs from multiple vendors and hardware generations. We view this customizable approach as a response to a central question in GPU performance modeling: how can we model GPU performance in a cost-explanatory fashion while maintaining accuracy, evaluation speed, portability, and ease of use, an attribute we believe precludes manual collection of kernel or hardware statistics.
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