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MD3420 / MD3460

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Agenda

• Overview of HPC Applications Performance

• Way to Inspect, Profile, Optimize HPC Applications

– CPU, memory, file I/O, network

• System Configurations and Tuning

• Case Studies, Performance Comparisons, Optimizations and Highlights

• Conclusions

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HPC Application Performance Overview

• To achieve scalability performance on HPC applications

– Involves understanding of the workload by performing profile analysis

• Tune for the most time spent (either CPU, Network, IO, etc)

– Underlying implicit requirement: Each node to perform similarly

• Run CPU/memory /network tests or cluster checker to identify bad node(s)

– Comparing behaviors of using different HW components

• Which pinpoint bottlenecks in different areas of the HPC cluster

• A selection of HPC applications will be shown

– To demonstrate method of profiling and analysis

– To determine the bottleneck in SW/HW

– To determine the effectiveness of tuning to improve on performance

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Ways To Inspect and Profile Applications

• Computation (CPU/Accelerators)

– Tools: gprof, top, htop, perf top, pstack, Visual Profiler, etc

– Tests and Benchmarks: HPL, STREAM

• File I/O

– Bandwidth and Block Size: iostat, collectl, darshan, etc

– Characterization Tools and Benchmarks: iozone, ior, etc

• Network Interconnect and MPI communications

– Tools and Profilers: perfquery, MPI profilers (IPM, TAU, etc)

– Characterization Tools and Benchmarks:

– Latency and Bandwidth: OSU benchmarks, IMB

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Case Study:

LS-DYNA

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Note

• The following research was performed under the HPC Advisory Council activities

– Participating vendors: Intel, Dell, Mellanox

– Compute resource - HPC Advisory Council Cluster Center

• The following was done to provide best practices

– LS-DYNA performance overview

– Understanding LS-DYNA communication patterns

– Ways to increase LS-DYNA productivity

– MPI libraries comparisons

• For more info please refer to

– http://www.dell.com

– http://www.intel.com

– http://www.mellanox.com

– http://www.lstc.com

http://www.dell.com/

http://www.hp.com/go/hpc

http://www.mellanox.com/

http://www.lstc.com/

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LS-DYNA

• LS-DYNA

– A general purpose structural and fluid analysis simulation software package

capable of simulating complex real world problems

– Developed by the Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC)

• LS-DYNA used by

– Automobile

– Aerospace

– Construction

– Military

– Manufacturing

– Bioengineering

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Objectives

• The presented research was done to provide best practices

– LS-DYNA performance benchmarking

• MPI Library performance comparison

• Interconnect performance comparison

• CPU cores/speed comparison

• Optimization tuning

• The presented results will demonstrate

– The scalability of the compute environment/application

– Considerations for higher productivity and efficiency

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Test Cluster Configuration

• Dell PowerEdge R730 32-node (896-core) “Thor” cluster

– Dual-Socket 14-Core Intel E5-2697v3 @ 2.60 GHz CPUs (Power Management in BIOS sets to Maximum Performance)

– Memory: 64GB memory, DDR4 2133 MHz, Memory Snoop Mode in BIOS sets to Home Snoop

– OS: RHEL 6.5, MLNX_OFED_LINUX-2.4-1.0.5.1_20150408_1555 InfiniBand SW stack

– Hard Drives: 2x 1TB 7.2 RPM SATA 2.5” on RAID 1

• Mellanox ConnectX-4 EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Adapters

• Mellanox Switch-IB SB7700 36-port EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Switch

• Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR VPI InfiniBand and 40Gb/s Ethernet Adapters

• Mellanox SwitchX-2 SX6036 36-port 56Gb/s FDR InfiniBand / VPI Ethernet Switch

• MPI: Open MPI 1.8.4, Mellanox HPC-X v1.2.0-326, Intel MPI 5.0.2.044, IBM Platform MPI 9.1

• Application:

– LS-DYNA 8.0.0 (builds 95359, 95610), Single Precision

• Benchmarks: 3 Vehicle Collision, Neon refined revised

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PowerEdge R730Massive flexibility for data intensive operations

• Performance and efficiency

– Intelligent hardware-driven systems management

with extensive power management features

– Innovative tools including automation for

parts replacement and lifecycle manageability

– Broad choice of networking technologies from GigE to IB

– Built in redundancy with hot plug and swappable PSU, HDDs and fans

• Benefits

– Designed for performance workloads

• from big data analytics, distributed storage or distributed computing

where local storage is key to classic HPC and large scale hosting environments

• High performance scale-out compute and low cost dense storage in one package

• Hardware Capabilities

– Flexible compute platform with dense storage capacity

• 2S/2U server, 6 PCIe slots

– Large memory footprint (Up to 768GB / 24 DIMMs)

– High I/O performance and optional storage configurations

• HDD options: 12 x 3.5” - or - 24 x 2.5 + 2x 2.5 HDDs in rear of server

• Up to 26 HDDs with 2 hot plug drives in rear of server for boot or scratch

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LS-DYNA Performance – Network Interconnects

• EDR InfiniBand delivers superior scalability in application performance

– Provides higher performance by over 4-5 times than 1GbE, 10GbE and 40GbE

– 1GbE stop scaling beyond 4 nodes, and 10GbE stops scaling beyond 8 nodes

– InfiniBand demonstrates continuous performance gain at scale

28 MPI Processes / Node Higher is better

444%

505%572%

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• Majority of the MPI time is spent on MPI_recv and MPI Collective Ops– MPI_Recv(36%), MPI_Allreduce(27%), MPI_Bcast(24%)

• Similar communication characteristics seen on both input dataset– Both exhibit similar communication patterns

LS-DYNA Profiling – Time Spent in MPI

3 Vehicle Collision – 32 nodesNeon_refined_revised – 32 nodes

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LS-DYNA Profiling – Time Spent in MPI

• Most of the MPI messages are in the medium sizes– Most message sizes are between 0 to 64B

• For the most time consuming MPI calls– MPI_Recv: Most messages are under 4KB– MPI_Bcast: Majority are less than 16B, but larger messages exist– MPI_Allreduce: Most messages are less than 256B

neon_refined_revised

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LS-DYNA Performance – EDR vs FDR InfiniBand


– As the cluster scales, performance gap of EDR IB becomes widen

• Performance advantage of EDR InfiniBand increases for larger core counts

– EDR IB provides 15% versus FDR IB at 32 nodes (896 cores)

Higher is better

15%

28 MPI Processes / Node

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LS-DYNA Performance – Cores Per Node

• Better performance is seen at scale with less CPU cores per node

– At low node counts, higher performance can be achieved with more cores per node

– At high node counts, slightly better performance by using less cores per node

– Memory bandwidth might be limited by more CPU cores being used

CPU @ 2.6GHzHigher is better

5%3%2% 5%

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LS-DYNA Performance – AVX2/SSE2 CPU Instructions

• LS-DYNA provides executables with supports for different CPU instructions

– AVX2 is supported on “Haswell” while SSE2 is supported on previous generations

– Due to runtime issue, AVX2 executable build 95610 is used, instead of the public build 95359

– Slight improvement of ~2-4% by using executable with AVX2 instructions

– The AVX2 instructions runs at a lower clock speed (2.2GHz) than normal CPU clock (2.6GHz)

Higher is better

4%


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LS-DYNA Performance – Turbo Mode

• Turbo Boost enables processors to run above its base frequency

– Capability to allow CPU cores to run dynamically above the CPU clock

– When thermal headroom allows the CPU to operate

– The 2.6GHz clock speed could boost to Max Turbo Frequency of 3.3GHz

– Running with Turbo Boost translates to a ~25% of performance boost

40%25%

Higher is better 28 MPI Processes / Node

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LS-DYNA Performance – Memory Optimization

• Setting the environment variables for memory allocator improve on performance

– Modifying the memory allocator allows faster memory registration for communications

• Environment variables used:– export MALLOC_MMAP_MAX_=0

– export MALLOC_TRIM_THRESHOLD_=-1

176%

Higher is better

19%


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LS-DYNA Performance – MPI Optimization

• FCA and MXM enhance LS-DYNA performance at scale for HPC-X– Open MPI and HPC-X are based on the Open MPI distribution

– The “yalla” PML, UD transport and memory optimization in HPC-X reduce overhead

– MXM provides a speedup of 38% over un-tuned baseline run at 32 nodes (768 cores)

• MCA parameters:• -mca btl_sm_use_knem 1 -mca pml yalla -x MXM_TLS=ud,shm,self -x MXM_SHM_RNDV_THRESH=32768

• -x HCOLL_CONTEXT_CACHE_ENABLE=1

Higher is better

38%


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LS-DYNA Performance – Intel MPI Optimization

• The DAPL provider performs better than OFA provider for Intel MPI– DAPL would provide better scalability performance for Intel MPI on LS-DYNA

• MCA parameters for MXM:– Common for 2 tests: I_MPI_DAPL_SCALABLE_PROGRESS 1, I_MPI_RDMA_TRANSLATION_CACHE 1,

I_MPI_FAIR_CONN_SPIN_COUNT 2147483647, I_MPI_FAIR_READ_SPIN_COUNT 2147483647, I_MPI_ADJUST_REDUCE 2, I_MPI_ADJUST_BCAST 0, I_MPI_RDMA_TRANSLATION_CACHE 1, I_MPI_RDMA_RNDV_BUF_ALIGN 65536, I_MPI_SPIN_COUNT 121

– For OFA: -IB, MV2_USE_APM 0, I_MPI_OFA_USE_XRC 1

– For DAPL: -DAPL, I_MPI_DAPL_DIRECT_COPY_THRESHOLD 65536, I_MPI_DAPL_UD enable, I_MPI_DAPL_PROVIDER ofa-v2-mlx5_0-1u

Higher is better

20%


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LS-DYNA Performance – MPI Libraries

• HPC-X outperforms Platform MPI, and Open MPI in scalability performance

– HPC-X delivers higher performance than Intel MPI (OFA) by 33%, (DAPL) by 11%, Platform MPI by 27% on

neon_refined_revised

– Performance is 20% higher than Intel OFA, and % 8% better than Platform MPI in 3cars

• Tuning parameter used:

– For Open MPI: -bind-to-core and KNEM. For Platform MPI: -cpu_bind, -xrc. For Intel MPI: see previous slide

7%27%

Higher is better

33% 20%11%


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• Current Haswell system configuration outperforms prior system generations

– Current systems outperformed Ivy Bridge by 47%, Sandy Bridge by 75%, Westmere by 148%, Nehalem by 290%

– Scalability support from EDR InfiniBand and HPC-X provide huge boost in performance at scale for LS-DYNA

• System components used:– Haswell: 2-socket 14-core [email protected], 2133MHz DIMMs, ConnectX-4 EDR InfiniBand

– Ivy Bridge: 2-socket 10-core [email protected], 1600MHz DIMMs, Connect-IB FDR InfiniBand

– Sandy Bridge: 2-socket 8-core [email protected], 1600MHz DIMMs, ConnectX-3 FDR InfiniBand

– Westmere: 2-socket 6-core [email protected], 1333MHz DIMMs, ConnectX-2 QDR InfiniBand

– Nehalem: 2-socket 4-core [email protected], 1333MHz DIMMs, ConnectX-2 QDR InfiniBand

290%

47%

75%148%

Higher is better

LS-DYNA Performance – System Generations

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LS-DYNA Summary

• Performance

– Compute: Intel Haswell cluster outperforms system architecture of previous generations

• Outperforms Ivy Bridge by 47%, Sandy Bridge by 75%, Westmere by 148%, and Nehalem by 290%

• Using executable with AVX2 instructions provides slight advantage

• Slight improvement of ~2-4% by using executable with AVX2 instructions

– Turbo Mode: Running with Turbo Boost provides ~25% of performance boost in some cases

• Turbo Boost enables processors to run above its base frequency

– Network: EDR InfiniBand and HPC-X MPI library deliver superior scalability in application performance

• EDR IB provides higher performance by over 4-5 times vs 1GbE, 10GbE and 40GbE, 15% vs FDR IB at 32 nodes

• MPI Tuning

– HPC-X enhances LS-DYNA performance at scale for LS-DYNA

• MXM UD provides a speedup of 38% over un-tuned baseline run at 32 nodes

– HPC-X outperforms Platform MPI, and Open MPI in scalability performance

• Up to 27% better than Platform MPI on neon_refined_revised, and 8% better than Platform MPI in 3cars

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Case Study:

GROMACS

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GROMACS

• GROMACS (GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulation)

– A molecular dynamics simulation package

– Primarily designed for biochemical molecules like proteins, lipids and nucleic acids

• A lot of algorithmic optimizations have been introduced in the code

• Extremely fast at calculating the nonbonded interactions

– Ongoing development to extend GROMACS with interfaces both to Quantum Chemistry and

Bioinformatics/databases

– An open source software released under the GPL

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Objectives

• The presented research was done to provide best practices

– GROMACS performance benchmarking

• CPU performance comparison

• MPI library performance comparison

• Interconnect performance comparison

• System generations comparison

• The presented results will demonstrate

– The scalability of the compute environment/application

– Considerations for higher productivity and efficiency

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Test Cluster Configuration

• Dell PowerEdge R730 32-node (896-core) “Thor” cluster

– Dual-Socket 14-Core Intel E5-2697v3 @ 2.60 GHz CPUs (Power Management in BIOS sets to Maximum Performance)

– Memory: 64GB memory, DDR4 2133 MHz, Memory Snoop Mode in BIOS sets to Home Snoop, Turbo Enabled

– OS: RHEL 6.5, MLNX_OFED_LINUX-3.0-1.0.1 InfiniBand SW stack

– Hard Drives: 2x 1TB 7.2 RPM SATA 2.5” on RAID 1

• Mellanox ConnectX-4 EDR 100Gbps EDR InfiniBand Adapters

• Mellanox Switch-IB SB7700 36-port 100Gb/s EDR InfiniBand Switch

• Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR InfiniBand, 10/40GbE Ethernet VPI Adapters

• Mellanox SwitchX-2 SX6036 36-port 56Gb/s FDR InfiniBand / VPI Ethernet Switch

• MPI: Mellanox HPC-X v1.2.0-326

• Compiler and Libraries: Intel Composer XE 2015.3.187 and MKL

• Application: GROMACS 4.6.7

• Benchmark datasets: DPPC in Water (d.dppc, 121856 atoms, 150000 steps, SP) unless stated otherwise

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GROMACS Performance – Network Interconnects

• InfiniBand is the only interconnect that delivers superior scalability performance

– EDR InfiniBand provides higher performance and more scalable than 1GbE, 10GbE, or 40GbE

– Performance for Ethernet stays flat (or stops scaling) beyond 2 nodes

– EDR InfiniBand outperforms 10GbE-RoCE on scalability performance by 55% at 32 nodes / 896c

– EDR InfiniBand demonstrates continuous performance gain at scale

28 MPI Processes / Node Higher is better

55%4.1x4.2x

4.6x

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GROMACS Profiling – Time Spent by MPI Calls

• The most time consuming MPI call os MPI_Sendrecv

– MPI_Sendrecv: 66% (or 27% of runtime) at 32 nodes (896 cores)

– MPI_Waitall: 18% (or 7% of runtime), MPI_Bcast: 6% (or 2% of runtime)

– Point to point and non-blocking sends and receives consume most time in GROMACS

32 Nodes

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GROMACS Profiling – MPI Message Sizes

• Majority of data transfer messages are medium sizes, except for:

– MPI_Sendrecv has a large concentration (from 8B to 8KB)

– MPI_Bcast shows some concentration

32 Nodes

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GROMACS Profiling – MPI Data Transfer

• As the cluster grows, similar communication behavior is seen

– Majority of communications are between neighboring ranks

– Non-blocking (point to point) data, and point-to-point transfers are shown in the graph

– Collective data communications are small compared to point-to-point communications

2 Nodes / 56 Cores 32 Nodes / 896 Cores

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GROMACS Performance – EDR vs FDR InfiniBand


– As the number of nodes scales, performance gap of EDR IB becomes widen

• Performance advantage of EDR InfiniBand increases for larger core counts

– EDR InfiniBand provides 29% versus FDR InfiniBand at 32 nodes (896 cores)

Higher is better

29%


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GROMACS Performance – System Generations

• Thor cluster (based on Intel E5-2697v3 - Haswell) outperforms prior generations

– 1.1 to 3.5x higher performance than clusters based on previous generations of Intel architecture

• System components used:– Janus: 2-socket 6-core Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz, 1333MHz DIMMs, ConnectX-2 QDR IB – Jupiter: 2-socket 8-core Xeon E5-2680 @ 2.7GHz, 1600MHz DIMMs, ConnectX-3 FDR IB– Thor: 2-socket 14-core Xeon E5-2680V3 @2.6GHz, 2133MHz DIMMs, ConnectX-4 EDR IB

356%

118%

Higher is better

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GROMACS Performance – Cores Per Node

• Running more CPU cores provides higher performance

– ~7-10% higher productivity with 28PPN compared to 24PPN

– Higher demand on memory bandwidth and network might limit performance as more cores are used


13%

39%7%

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GROMACS Performance – Turbo Mode & CPU Clock

• Advantages are seen with running higher clock rate

– Either by enabling Turbo mode or higher CPU clock frequency

• Boosting CPU clock rate yields higher performance at lower cost

– Increasing to 2600MHz (from 2300MHz) run 11% faster


16%

11%

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GROMACS Performance – Floating Point Precision

• GROMACS allows running either SP and DP for floating point precision

• Running at SP is shown to be faster than running at DP

– Seen around 41%-47% faster running at SP (Single Precision) versus DP (Double Precision)

– All other slides are running using Single Precision


47%

41%

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GROMACS Summary

• Latest system generation improve GROMACS performance at scale

– Compute: Intel Haswell cluster outperforms system architecture of previous generations

• Haswell cluster outperforms Sandy Bridge cluster by 110%, and outperforms Westmere cluster by 350% at 32 node

– Compute: Running more CPU cores provides higher performance

• ~7-10% higher productivity with 28PPN compared to 24PPN

– Network: EDR InfiniBand delivers superior scalability in application performance

• EDR InfiniBand provides higher performance and more scalable than 1GbE, 10GbE, or 40GbE

• Performance for Ethernet (1GbE/10GbE/40GbE) stays flat (or stops scaling) beyond 2 nodes

• EDR InfiniBand outperforms 10GbE-RoCE on scalability performance by 55% at 32 nodes / 896c

– Running at Single Precision is approximately twice as fast as running at Double Precision

• Seen around 41%-47% faster running at SP (Single Precision) versus DP (Double Precision)

– MPI Profile shows majority of data transfer are point-to-point and non-blocking communications

• MPI_Sendrecv and MPI_Waitall are the most used MPI communication

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