Optimizing computing and energy performances on GPU clusters: experimentation on a PDE solver

Sylvain Contassot-Vivier (1) , Stéphane Vialle (1, 2) , Thomas Jost (1)

1 ALGORILLE - Algorithms for the Grid
2 SUPELEC-Campus Metz

We present an experimental comparison between a synchronous and an asynchronous version of a same PDE solver on a GPU-cluster. In the context of our experiments, the GPU-cluster can be heterogeneous (different CPUs and GPUs). The comparison is done both on performance and energetic aspects.

Domaines: Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]

Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Stéphane Vialle, Thomas Jost. Optimizing computing and energy performances on GPU clusters: experimentation on a PDE solver. 1st Year workshop of the COST Action IC0804, Apr 2010, Passau, Germany. pp.50-54. ⟨hal-00517374⟩