Download rMPI An MPI-Compliant Message Passing Library for Tiled

Message Passing On TightlyInterconnected Multi-Core
Processors
James Psota and Anant Agarwal
MIT CSAIL
Technology Scaling Enables MultiCores
cluster
multi-core
Multi-cores offer a novel environment for parallel computing
Traditional Communication On Multi-Processors
Interconnects
Shared Memory
– Ethernet TCP/IP
– Myrinet
– Scalable Coherent
Interconnect (SCI)
– Shared caches or
memory
– Remote DMA
(RDMA)
Beowulf Cluster
AMD Dual-Core Opteron
On-Chip Networks Enable Fast
Communication
• Some multi-cores offer…
– tightly integrated on-chip
networks
– direct access to hardware
resources (no OS layers)
– fast interrupts
MIT Raw Processor used for
experimentation and validation
Parallel Programming is Hard
• Must orchestrate of computation and
communication
• Extra resources present both opportunity and
challenge
• Trivial to deadlock
• Constraints on message sizes
• No operating system support
rMPI’s Approach
Goals
– robust, deadlock-free, scalable programming
interface
– easy to program through high-level routines
Challenge
– exploit hardware resources for efficient
communication
– don’t sacrifice performance
Outline
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Introduction
Background
Design
Results
Related Work
The Raw Multi-Core Processor
• 16 identical tiles
– processing core
– network routers
• 4 register-mapped
on-chip networks
• Direct access to
hardware resources
• Hardware fabricated
in ASIC process
Raw Processor
Raw’s General Dynamic Network
• Handles run-time events
– interrupts, dynamic messages
• Network guarantees atomic, in-order
messages
• Dimension-ordered wormhole routed
• Maximum message length: 31 words
• Blocking sends/receives
• Minimal network buffering
MPI: Portable Message Passing API
• Gives programmers high-level
abstractions for parallel programming
– send/receive, scatter/gather, reductions, etc.
• MPI is a standard, not an implementation
– many implementations for many HW
platforms
– over 200 API functions
• MPI applications portable across MPIcompliant systems
• Can impose high overhead
MPI Semantics: Cooperative Communication
process 0
send(dest=1,
tag=17)
• Data exchanged
cooperatively via explicit
send and receive
• Receiving process’s
memory only modified with
its explicit participation
• Combines communication
and synchronization
send(dest=1,
tag=42)
private
address
tag=17
space tag=42
process 1
recv(src=0,
tag=42)
recv(src=0,
tag=17)
temp
interrupt
communication channel
private
address
space
Outline
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Introduction
Background
Design
Results
Related Work
rMPI System Architecture
High-Level MPI Layer
• Argument
checking
(MPI
semantics)
• Buffer prep
• Calls
appropriate low
level functions
• LAM/MPI
partially ported
Collective Communications Layer
• Algorithms for
collective
operations
– Broadcast
– Scatter/Gather
– Reduce
• Invokes low
level functions
Point-to-Point Layer
• Low-level
send/receive
routines
• Highly
optimized
interrupt-driven
receive design
• Packetization
and reassembly
Outline
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Introduction
Background
Design
Results
Related Work
rMPI Evaluation
• How much overhead does high-level
interface impose?
– compare against hand-coded GDN
• Does it scale?
– with problem size and number of processors?
– compare against hand-coded GDN
– compare against commercial MPI
implementation on cluster
End-to-End Latency Overhead vs. Hand-Coded
(1)
• Experiment measures latency for:
– sender: load message from memory
– sender: break up and send message
– receiver: receive message
– receiver: store message to memory
End-to-End Latency Overhead vs. HandCoded (2)
1 word: 481%
1000 words:
33%
packet
management
complexity
overflows cache
Performance Scaling: Jacobi
16x16 input matrix
2048 x 2048 input matrix
Performance Scaling: Jacobi, 16 processors
sequential version
cache capacity
overflow
Overhead: Jacobi, rMPI vs. HandCoded
many small
messages
memory access
synchronization
16 tiles: 5%
overhead
Matrix Multiplication: rMPI vs. LAM/MPI
many smaller
messages; smaller
message length has
less effect on LAM
Trapezoidal Integration: rMPI vs. LAM/MPI
Pi Estimation: rMPI vs. LAM/MPI
Related Work
• Low-latency communication networks
– iWarp, Alewife, INMOS
• Multi-core processors
– VIRAM, Wavescalar, TRIPS, POWER 4,
Pentium D
• Alternatives to programming Raw
– scalar operand network, CFlow, rawcc
• MPI implementations
– OpenMPI, LAM/MPI, MPICH
Summary
• rMPI provides easy yet powerful
programming model for multi-cores
• Scales better than commercial MPI
implementation
• Low overhead over hand-coded applications
Thanks!
For more information, see Master’s Thesis:
http://cag.lcs.mit.edu/~jim/publications/ms.pdf
rMPI messages broken into packets
rMPI sender
process 1
• GDN messages have a max length of 31 words
• Receiver buffers
21
and
demultiplexes
• rMPI packet format for interrupt
65 [payload] word MPI
message
packets from
rMPI
different sources
receiver
process
• Messages
received upon
interrupt, and
buffered until
user-level receive
23
1
rMPI sender process 2
rMPI: enabling MPI programs on Raw
rMPI…
• is compatible with current MPI software
• gives programmers already familiar with MPI an
easy interface to program Raw
• gives programmers fine-grain control over their
programs when trusting automatic parallelization
tools are not adequate
• gives users a robust, deadlock-free, and highperformance programming model with which to
program Raw
► easily write programs on Raw without overly sacrificing performance
Packet boundary bookkeeping
• Receiver must handle packet interleaving
across multiple interrupt handler
invocations
Receive-side packet management
• Global data structures
accessed by interrupt
handler and MPI
Receive threads
• Data structure design
minimizes pointer
chasing for fast lookups
• No memcpy for receivebefore-send case
User-thread CFG for receiving
Interrupt handler CFG
• logic supports
MPI semantics
and packet
construction
Future work: improving performance
• Comparison of rMPI to standard cluster
running off-the-shelf MPI library
• Improve system performance
– further minimize MPI overhead
– spatially-aware collective communication
algorithms
– further Raw-specific optimizations
• Investigate new APIs better suited for
TPAs
Future work: HW extensions
• Simple hardware tweaks may significantly
improve performance
– larger input/output FIFOs
– simple switch logic/demultiplexing to handle
packetization could drastically simplify
software logic
– larger header words (64 bit?) would allow for
much larger (atomic) packets
• (also, current header only scales to 32 x 32 tile
fabrics)
Conclusions
• MPI standard was designed for “standard”
parallel machines, not for tiled
architectures
– MPI may no longer make sense for tiled
designs
• Simple hardware could significantly reduce
packet management overhead  increase
rMPI performance