OmpSs is a task-parallel programming model consisting of a reduced collection of OpenMP-like directives, a front-end compiler, and a runtime system. This directive-based programming interface helps developers accelerate their application’s execution, e.g. in a cluster equipped with graphics processing units (GPUs), with a low programming effort. On the other hand, the virtualization package rCUDA provides seamless and transparent remote access to any CUDA GPU in a cluster, via the CUDA Driver and Runtime programming interfaces. In this paper we investigate the hurdles and practical advantages of combining these two technologies. Our experimental study targets two cluster configurations: a system where all the GPUs are located into a single cluster node; and a cluster with the GPUs distributed among the nodes. Two applications, the Nbody particle simulation and the Cholesky factorization of a dense matrix, are employed to expose the bottlenecks and performance of a remote virtualization solution applied to these two OmpSs task-parallel codes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OmpSs is a task-parallel programming model consisting of a reduced collection of OpenMP-like directives, a front-end compiler, and a runtime system. This directive-based programming interface helps developers accelerate their application’s execution, e.g. in a cluster equipped with graphics processing units (GPUs), with a low programming effort. On the other hand, the virtualization package rCUDA provides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,89,3],"tags":[1782,14,106,20,1824,378,931,167],"class_list":["post-14632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-nvidia-cuda","category-paper","tag-computer-science","tag-cuda","tag-gpu-cluster","tag-nvidia","tag-ompss","tag-tesla-c2050","tag-tesla-m2050","tag-virtualization"],"views":1944,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hgpu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hgpu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hgpu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hgpu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hgpu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hgpu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hgpu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hgpu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hgpu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}