Extreme Scale Plasma Turbulence Simulations on Top Supercomputers Worldwide

William Tang, Bei Wang, Stephane Ethier, Grzegorz Kwasniewski, Torsten Hoefler, Khaled Z. Ibrahim, Kamesh Madduri, Samuel Williams, Leonid Oliker, Carlos Rosales-Fernandez, Tim Williams

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Abstract

The goal of the extreme scale plasma turbulence studies described in this paper is to expedite the delivery of reliable predictions on confinement physics in large magnetic fusion systems by using world-class supercomputers to carry out simulations with unprecedented resolution and temporal duration. This has involved architecture-dependent optimizations of performance scaling and addressing code portability and energy issues, with the metrics for multi-platform comparisons being 'time-to-solution' and 'energy-to-solution'. Realistic results addressing how confinement losses caused by plasma turbulence scale from present-day devices to the much larger $25 billion international ITER fusion facility have been enabled by innovative advances in the GTC-P code including (i) implementation of one-sided communication from MPI 3.0 standard; (ii) creative optimization techniques on Xeon Phi processors; and (iii) development of a novel performance model for the key kernels of the PIC code. Results show that modeling data movement is sufficient to predict performance on modern supercomputer platforms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of SC 2016
Subtitle of host publicationThe International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages502-513
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781467388153
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2 2016
Event2016 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2016 - Salt Lake City, United States
Duration: Nov 13 2016Nov 18 2016

Publication series

NameInternational Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC
Volume0
ISSN (Print)2167-4329
ISSN (Electronic)2167-4337

Other

Other2016 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySalt Lake City
Period11/13/1611/18/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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