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Performance Evaluation of Scientific Applications on POWER8

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High Performance Computing Systems. Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation (PMBS 2014)

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With POWER8 a new generation of POWER processors became available. This architecture features a moderate number of cores, each of which expose a high amount of instruction-level as well as thread-level parallelism. The high-performance processing capabilities are integrated with a rich memory hierarchy providing high bandwidth through a large set of memory chips. For a set of applications with significantly different performance signatures we explore efficient use of this processor architecture.

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  1. Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany

    Andrew V. Adinetz, Paul F. Baumeister, Thorsten Hater & Dirk Pleiter

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Ferrara and INFN, Ferrara, Italy

    Sebastiano Fabio Schifano

  3. IBM Deutschland Research and Development GmbH, 71032, Böblingen, Germany

    Hans Böttiger & Thilo Maurer

  4. SimLab Neuroscience, Institute for Advanced Simulation and JARA, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany

    Wolfram Schenck

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Adinetz, A.V. et al. (2015). Performance Evaluation of Scientific Applications on POWER8. In: Jarvis, S., Wright, S., Hammond, S. (eds) High Performance Computing Systems. Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation. PMBS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8966. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17248-4_2

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