A Study of Performance Portability in Plasma Physics Simulations
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| author | Ruzicka, Josef Asch, Christian Meneses, Esteban Rampp, Markus Laure, Erwin |
| author_facet | Ruzicka, Josef Asch, Christian Meneses, Esteban Rampp, Markus Laure, Erwin |
| contents | The high-performance computing (HPC) community has recently seen a substantial diversification of hardware platforms and their associated programming models. From traditional multicore processors to highly specialized accelerators, vendors and tool developers back up the relentless progress of those architectures. In the context of scientific programming, it is fundamental to consider performance portability frameworks, i.e., software tools that allow programmers to write code once and run it on different computer architectures without sacrificing performance. We report here on the benefits and challenges of performance portability using a field-line tracing simulation and a particle-in-cell code, two relevant applications in computational plasma physics with applications to magnetically-confined nuclear-fusion energy research. For these applications we report performance results obtained on four HPC platforms with server-class CPUs from Intel (Xeon) and AMD (EPYC), and high-end GPUs from Nvidia and AMD, including the latest Nvidia H100 GPU and the novel AMD Instinct MI300A APU. Our results show that both Kokkos and OpenMP are powerful tools to achieve performance portability and decent "out-of-the-box" performance, even for the very latest hardware platforms. For our applications, Kokkos provided performance portability to the broadest range of hardware architectures from different vendors. |
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| spellingShingle | A Study of Performance Portability in Plasma Physics Simulations Ruzicka, Josef Asch, Christian Meneses, Esteban Rampp, Markus Laure, Erwin Plasma Physics Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Performance Computational Physics 68Q85 D.1.3 The high-performance computing (HPC) community has recently seen a substantial diversification of hardware platforms and their associated programming models. From traditional multicore processors to highly specialized accelerators, vendors and tool developers back up the relentless progress of those architectures. In the context of scientific programming, it is fundamental to consider performance portability frameworks, i.e., software tools that allow programmers to write code once and run it on different computer architectures without sacrificing performance. We report here on the benefits and challenges of performance portability using a field-line tracing simulation and a particle-in-cell code, two relevant applications in computational plasma physics with applications to magnetically-confined nuclear-fusion energy research. For these applications we report performance results obtained on four HPC platforms with server-class CPUs from Intel (Xeon) and AMD (EPYC), and high-end GPUs from Nvidia and AMD, including the latest Nvidia H100 GPU and the novel AMD Instinct MI300A APU. Our results show that both Kokkos and OpenMP are powerful tools to achieve performance portability and decent "out-of-the-box" performance, even for the very latest hardware platforms. For our applications, Kokkos provided performance portability to the broadest range of hardware architectures from different vendors. |
| title | A Study of Performance Portability in Plasma Physics Simulations |
| topic | Plasma Physics Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Performance Computational Physics 68Q85 D.1.3 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05009 |