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Performance Evaluation of Python ParallelProgramming Models: Charm4Py and mpi4py

Zane Fink, Simeng Liu, Jaemin Choi, Matthias Diener, Laxmikant V. Kale
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
arXiv:2111.04872 [cs.DC], (8 Nov 2021)

@misc{fink2021performance,

   title={Performance Evaluation of Python ParallelProgramming Models: Charm4Py and mpi4py},

   author={Zane Fink and Simeng Liu and Jaemin Choi and Matthias Diener and Laxmikant V. Kale},

   year={2021},

   eprint={2111.04872},

   archivePrefix={arXiv},

   primaryClass={cs.DC}

}

Python is rapidly becoming the lingua franca of machine learning and scientific computing. With the broad use of frameworks such as Numpy, SciPy, and TensorFlow, scientific computing and machine learning are seeing a productivity boost on systems without a requisite loss in performance. While high-performance libraries often provide adequate performance within a node, distributed computing is required to scale Python across nodes and make it genuinely competitive in large-scale high-performance computing. Many frameworks, such as Charm4Py, DaCe, Dask, Legate Numpy, mpi4py, and Ray, scale Python across nodes. However, little is known about these frameworks’ relative strengths and weaknesses, leaving practitioners and scientists without enough information about which frameworks are suitable for their requirements. In this paper, we seek to narrow this knowledge gap by studying the relative performance of two such frameworks: Charm4Py and mpi4py. We perform a comparative performance analysis of Charm4Py and mpi4py using CPU and GPU-based microbenchmarks other representative mini-apps for scientific computing.
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