Automatic NUMA Characterization using Cbench
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
3rd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), 2012
@article{braithwaite2012automatic,
title={Automatic NUMA Characterization using Cbench},
author={Braithwaite, R. and Feng, W. and McCormick, P.},
year={2012}
}
Clusters of seemingly homogeneous compute nodes are increasingly heterogeneous within each node due to replication and distribution of node-level subsystems. This intra-node heterogeneity can adversely affect program execution performance by inflicting additional data-access costs when accessing non-local data. In this work-in-progress paper, we present extensions to the Cbench Scalable Testing Framework for analyzing main memory and PCIe data-access performance in modern NUMA architectures. The information provided by this tool will be of use for task scheduling, performance modeling, and evaluation of NUMA systems.
May 2, 2012 by hgpu
