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HIERARCHICAL PARALLELISM FOR TRANSIENT SOLID MECHANICS SIMULATIONS

World Congress in Computational Mechanics and ECCOMAS Congress

Littlewood, David J.; Jones, Reese E.; Morales, Nicolas M.; Plews, Julia A.; Hetmaniuk, Ulrich; Lifflander, Jonathan J.

Software development for high-performance scientific computing continues to evolve in response to increased parallelism and the advent of on-node accelerators, in particular GPUs. While these hardware advancements have the potential to significantly reduce turnaround times, they also present implementation and design challenges for engineering codes. We investigate the use of two strategies to mitigate these challenges: the Kokkos library for performance portability across disparate architectures, and the DARMA/vt library for asynchronous many-task scheduling. We investigate the application of Kokkos within the NimbleSM finite element code and the LAMÉ constitutive model library. We explore the performance of DARMA/vt applied to NimbleSM contact mechanics algorithms. Software engineering strategies are discussed, followed by performance analyses of relevant solid mechanics simulations which demonstrate the promise of Kokkos and DARMA/vt for accelerated engineering simulators.

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TYPE Conference Poster YEAR 2021
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Toward Resilient Heterogeneous Computing Workflow through Kokkos-DataSpaces Integration

Zhang, Bo Z.; Davis, Philip E.; PArshar, Manish P.; Morales, Nicolas M.; Teranishi, Keita T.

With the growing number of applications designed for heterogeneous HPC devices, application programmers and users are finding it challenging to compose scalable workflows as ensembles of these applications, that are portable, performant and resilient. The Kokkos C++ library has been designed to simplify this cumbersome procedure by providing an intra-application uniform programming model and portable performance. However, assembling multiple Kokkos-enabled applications into a complex workflow is still a challenge. Although Kokkos enables a uniform programming model, the inter-application data exchange still remains a challenge from both performance and software development cost perspectives. In order to address this issue, we propose a Kokkos-DataSpaces Integration, with the goal of providing a virtual shared-space abstraction that can be accessed concurrently by all applications in an Kokkos workflow, thus extending Kokkos to support inter-application data exchange.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2020
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Design and Implementation Techniques for an MPI-Oriented AMT Runtime

Proceedings of ExaMPI 2020: Exascale MPI Workshop, Held in conjunction with SC 2020: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

Lifflander, Jonathan; Miller, Phil; Slattengren, Nicole S.; Morales, Nicolas M.; Stickney, Paul; Pébaÿ, Philippe P.

We present the execution model of Virtual Transport (VT) a new, Asynchronous Many-Task (AMT) runtime system that provides unprecedented integration and interoperability with MPI. We have developed VT in conjunction with large production applications to provide a highly incremental, high-value path to AMT adoption in the dominant ecosystem of MPI applications, libraries, and developers. Our aim is that the'MPI+X' model of hybrid parallelism can smoothly extend to become'MPI+VT +X'. We illustrate a set of design and implementation techniques that have been useful in building VT. We believe that these ideas and the code embodying them will be useful to others building similar systems, and perhaps provide insight to how MPI might evolve to better support them. We motivate our approach with two applications that are adopting VT and have begun to benefit from increased asynchrony and dynamic load balancing.

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TYPE Conference Paper YEAR 2020
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