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Building and Auto-Tuning Computing Kernels: Experimenting with Boast and Starpu in the Gysela Code
Julien Bigot1 ; Virginie Grandgirard2 ; Guillaume Latu2 ; Jean-Francois Mehaut3 ; Luís Felipe Millani3 ; Chantal Passeron2 ; Steven Quinito Masnada3 ; Jérôme Richard4 ; Brice Videau5
1Maison de la Simulation, CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
2CEA, IRFM, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance
3Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble/Université Grenoble Alpes
4Univ. Lyon, Inria, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Univ. Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, LIP
5Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble/CNRS
ESAIM. Proceedings, Tome 63 (2018), pp. 152-178
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Modeling turbulent transport is a major goal in order to predict confinement performance in a tokamak plasma. The gyrokinetic framework considers a computational domain in five dimensions to look at kinetic issues in a plasma; this leads to huge computational needs. Therefore, optimization of the code is an especially important aspect, especially since coprocessors and complex manycore architectures are foreseen as building blocks for Exascale systems. This project aims to evaluate the applicability of two auto-tuning approaches with the BOAST and StarPU tools on the GYSELA code in order to circumvent performance portability issues. A specific computation intensive kernel is considered in order to evaluate the benefit of these methods. StarPU enables to match the performance and even sometimes outperform the hand-optimized version of the code while leaving scheduling choices to an automated process. BOAST on the other hand reveals to be well suited to get a gain in terms of execution time on four architectures. Speedups in-between 1.9 and 5.7 are obtained on a cornerstone computation intensive kernel.
DOI : 10.1051/proc/201863152

Julien Bigot  1   ; Virginie Grandgirard  2   ; Guillaume Latu  2   ; Jean-Francois Mehaut  3   ; Luís Felipe Millani  3   ; Chantal Passeron  2   ; Steven Quinito Masnada  3   ; Jérôme Richard  4   ; Brice Videau  5

1 Maison de la Simulation, CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
2 CEA, IRFM, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance
3 Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble/Université Grenoble Alpes
4 Univ. Lyon, Inria, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Univ. Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, LIP
5 Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble/CNRS 
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Julien Bigot; Virginie Grandgirard; Guillaume Latu; Jean-Francois Mehaut; Luís Felipe Millani; Chantal Passeron; Steven Quinito Masnada; Jérôme Richard; Brice Videau. Building and Auto-Tuning Computing Kernels: Experimenting with Boast and Starpu in the Gysela Code. ESAIM. Proceedings, Tome 63 (2018), pp. 152-178. doi: 10.1051/proc/201863152

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