An empirical study of hpc workloads on huawei kunpeng 916 processor

Yi Chao Wang, Jin Kun Chen, Bin Rui Li, Si Cheng Zuo, William Tang, Bei Wang, Qiu Cheng Liao, Rui Xie, James Lin

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Abstract

The ARM-based server processors have been gaining momentum in high performance computing (HPC). While not designed specifically for HPC, Huawei Kunpeng 916 processor has 32 ARMv8 cores and is tempting for HPC workloads. However, its potential remains unknown. To throughly understand the potential, we conducted a systematic evaluation in three steps by using: 1) three well-known benchmarks (HPL, STREAM, and LMbench); 2) three typical scientific kernels (SpMV, N-body, and GEMM); 3) three widely used mini-Apps (TeaLeaf, Neutral, and SNAP) and a real-world application GTC-P. We compared the performance results of Kunpeng 916 with that of Intel Xeon E5-2680v3/4 (Haswell/Broadwell). The evaluation results show that Kunpeng 916 has higher memory bandwidth than the two Intel processors, thus it can achieve compelling performance for running memory bound HPC applications.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE 25th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages360-367
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781728125831
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2019
Event25th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2019 - Tianjin, China
Duration: Dec 4 2019Dec 6 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS
Volume2019-December
ISSN (Print)1521-9097

Conference

Conference25th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityTianjin
Period12/4/1912/6/19

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Hardware and Architecture

Keywords

  • ARM
  • Benchmark
  • GTC-P
  • HPC
  • Huawei
  • Kunpeng
  • Performance Optimization

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