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In the last years, the energy efficiency of HPC systems is increasingly becoming of paramount importance for environmental, technical, and economical reasons. Several projects have investigated the use of different processors and accelerators in the quest of building systems able to achieve high energy efficiency levels for data centers and HPC installations. In this context, Arm CPU architecture has received a lot of attention given its wide use in low-power and energy-limited applications, but server grade processors have appeared on the market just recently. In this study, we targeted the Marvell ThunderX2, one of the latest Arm-based processors developed to fit the requirements of high performance computing applications. Our interest is mainly focused on the assessment in the context of large HPC installations, and thus we evaluated both computing performance and energy efficiency, using the ERT benchmark and two HPC production ready applications. We finally compared the results with other processors commonly used in large parallel systems and highlight the characteristics of applications which could benefit from the ThunderX2 architecture, in terms of both computing performance and energy efficiency. Pursuing this aim, we also describe how ERT has been modified and optimized for ThunderX2, and how to monitor power drain while running applications on this processor.
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Software and DVFS Tuning for Performance and Energy-Efficiency on Intel KNL Processors. JOURNAL OF LOW POWER ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/jlpea8020018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Performance and Power Analysis of HPC Workloads on Heterogenous Multi-Node Clusters. JOURNAL OF LOW POWER ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/jlpea8020013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Lin C, Xu A, Zhang G, Luo KH, Li Y. Discrete Boltzmann modeling of Rayleigh-Taylor instability in two-component compressible flows. Phys Rev E 2017; 96:053305. [PMID: 29347713 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.96.053305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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A discrete Boltzmann model (DBM) is proposed to probe the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) in two-component compressible flows. Each species has a flexible specific-heat ratio and is described by one discrete Boltzmann equation (DBE). Independent discrete velocities are adopted for the two DBEs. The collision and force terms in the DBE account for the molecular collision and external force, respectively. Two types of force terms are exploited. In addition to recovering the modified Navier-Stokes equations in the hydrodynamic limit, the DBM has the capability of capturing detailed nonequilibrium effects. Furthermore, we use the DBM to investigate the dynamic process of the RTI. The invariants of tensors for nonequilibrium effects are presented and studied. For low Reynolds numbers, both global nonequilibrium manifestations and the growth rate of the entropy of mixing show three stages (i.e., the reducing, increasing, and then decreasing trends) in the evolution of the RTI. On the other hand, the early reducing tendency is suppressed and even eliminated for high Reynolds numbers. Relevant physical mechanisms are analyzed and discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Chuandong Lin
- Center for Combustion Energy, Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.,State Key Laboratory for GeoMechanics and Deep Underground Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.,College of Mathematics and Informatics & FJKLMAA, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China
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- Laboratory of Computational Physics, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, P. O. Box 8009-26, Beijing 100088, China.,Center for Applied Physics and Technology, MOE Key Center for High Energy Density Physics Simulations, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Laboratory of Computational Physics, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, P. O. Box 8009-26, Beijing 100088, China
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- Center for Combustion Energy, Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.,Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom
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- State Key Laboratory for GeoMechanics and Deep Underground Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, China
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Calore E, Kraus J, Schifano SF, Tripiccione R. Accelerating Lattice Boltzmann Applications with OpenACC. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-48096-0_47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Ripesi P, Biferale L, Schifano SF, Tripiccione R. Evolution of a double-front Rayleigh-Taylor system using a graphics-processing-unit-based high-resolution thermal lattice-Boltzmann model. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:043022. [PMID: 24827347 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.043022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We study the turbulent evolution originated from a system subjected to a Rayleigh-Taylor instability with a double density at high resolution in a two-dimensional geometry using a highly optimized thermal lattice-Boltzmann code for GPUs. Our investigation's initial condition, given by the superposition of three layers with three different densities, leads to the development of two Rayleigh-Taylor fronts that expand upward and downward and collide in the middle of the cell. By using high-resolution numerical data we highlight the effects induced by the collision of the two turbulent fronts in the long-time asymptotic regime. We also provide details on the optimized lattice-Boltzmann code that we have run on a cluster of GPUs.
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- P Ripesi
- Department of Physics and INFN, University of Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Physics and INFN, University of Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Ferrara and INFN, Via G. Saragat 1, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Università di Ferrara and INFN, Via G. Saragat 1, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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