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Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
A Performance Comparison Through Benchmarking and Modeling of Three Leading Supercomputers: Blue Gene/L, Red Storm, and Purple
Tampa, Florida
November 11-November 17
ISBN: 0-7695-2700-0
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Adolfy Hoisie, Greg Johnson, Darren J. Kerbyson, Michael Lang, Scott Pakin, "A Performance Comparison Through Benchmarking and Modeling of Three Leading Supercomputers: Blue Gene/L, Red Storm, and Purple," SC Conference, pp. 3, Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing, 2006.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/SC.2006.4,
author = {Adolfy Hoisie and Greg Johnson and Darren J. Kerbyson and Michael Lang and Scott Pakin},
title = {A Performance Comparison Through Benchmarking and Modeling of Three Leading Supercomputers: Blue Gene/L, Red Storm, and Purple},
journal ={SC Conference},
volume = {0},
year = {2006},
isbn = {0-7695-2700-0},
pages = {3},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SC.2006.4},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Adolfy Hoisie, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Greg Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Darren J. Kerbyson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Michael Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratory
This work provides a performance analysis of three leading supercomputers that have recently been deployed: Purple, Red Storm and Blue Gene/L. Each of these machines are architecturally diverse, with very different performance characteristics. Each contains over 10,000 processors and has a system peak of over 40 Teraflops. We analyze each system using a range of micro-benchmarks which include communication performance as well as quantifying the impact of the operating system. The achievable application performance is compared across the systems. The application performance is confirmed via the use of detailed application models which use the underlying performance characteristics as measured by the micro-benchmarks. We also compare the machines in a realistic production scenario in which each machine is used so as to maximize its memory usage with the applications executed in a weak-scaling mode. The results also help illustrate that achievable performance is not directly related to the peak performance.
Citation:
Adolfy Hoisie, Greg Johnson, Darren J. Kerbyson, Michael Lang, Scott Pakin, "A Performance Comparison Through Benchmarking and Modeling of Three Leading Supercomputers: Blue Gene/L, Red Storm, and Purple," sc, pp.3, Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing, 2006
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