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GOSSIP SCALABILITY
10 20 1024 Nodes 19.0 s 19.0 s 19.0 s 19.0 s 19.1 s 19.2 s 19.5 s 20.0 s 12.2 s 12.2 s 12.2 s 12.2 s 12.3 s 12.4 s 12.7 s 13.2 s Without Gossip Interval = 1024 ms Interval = 256 ms Interval = 64 ms Interval = 16 ms Interval = 8 ms Interval = 4 ms Interval = 2 ms
MPI-FFT running on BG/Q “JUQUEEN”
Low overhead: No noticeable
interval of 64–256 ms
10 20 30 40 50 1024 Nodes 40.6 s 40.6 s 40.6 s 40.6 s 40.6 s 40.6 s 40.7 s 40.8 s 41.1 s 8.2 s 8.2 s 8.2 s 8.2 s 8.2 s 8.2 s 8.3 s 8.4 s 8.6 s 10 20 30 40 50 2048 Nodes 36.7 s 36.7 s 36.7 s 36.7 s 36.8 s 36.9 s 37.2 s 38.0 s 4.3 s 4.2 s 4.2 s 4.2 s 4.3 s 4.4 s 4.7 s 5.5 s Without Gossip Interval = 1024 ms Interval = 256 ms Interval = 64 ms Interval = 16 ms Interval = 8 ms Interval = 4 ms Interval = 2 ms Interval = 1 ms
COSMO-SPECS+FD4 on BG/Q “JUQUEEN“
Quality of information: Average age at nodes in the order of 2–3 s with gossip interval of 256 ms
- E. Levy, A. Barak, A. Shiloh, M. Lieber, C. Weinhold, and H. Härtig, „Overhead of a Decentralized
Gossip Algorithm on the Performance of HPC Applications“, ROSS 2014