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Abstract The landscape of high performance computing (HPC) has witnessed exponential growth in processor diversity, architectural complexity, and performance scalability. With an ever-increasing demand for faster and more efficient computing solutions to address an array of scientific, engineering, and societal challenges, the selection of processors for specific applications becomes paramount. Achieving optimal performance requires a deep understanding of how diverse processors interact with diverse workloads, making benchmarking a fundamental practice in the field of HPC. Here, we present preliminary results observed over such benchmarks and applications and a comparison of Intel Sapphire Rapids and Skylake-X, AMD Milan, and Fujitsu A64FX processors in terms of runtime performance, memory bandwidth utilization, and energy consumption. The examples focus specifically on the Sapphire Rapids processor with and without high-bandwidth memory (HBM). An additional case study reports the performance gains from using Intel’s Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) instructions, and how they along with HBM can be leveraged to accelerate AI workloads. These initial results aim to give a rough comparison of the processors rather than a detailed analysis and should prove timely and relevant for researchers who may be interested in using Sapphire Rapids for their scientific workloads.
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Comparing the behavior of OpenMP Implementations with various Applications on two different Fujitsu A64FX platforms
The development of the A64FX processor by Fujitsu has been a massive innovation in vectorized processors and led to Fugaku: the current world’s fastest supercomputer. We use a variety of tools to analyze the behavior and performance of several OpenMP applications with different compilers, and how these applications scale on the different A64FX processors on clusters at Stony Brook University and RIKEN.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1927880
- PAR ID:
- 10292745
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- PEARC '21: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1 to 4
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3437359.3465592
