Tutorial

Slides

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Full citation: Nikhil Jain and Misbah Mubarak. CODES-TRACER Tutorial: Enabling HPC Design Space Exploration via Discrete-Event Simulation. Tutorial presented at 25th Annual Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (HOTI). Aug 28, 2017, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

Guides

These guides will give some of the basics needed to use TraceR.

1. Network Models

2. Four Steps to Simulations

3. Expected Workflow

Full contents:

• Network Models
  • Overview
  • Simplenet
    • Configuring
    • Running
  • Dragonfly
    • Configuring
    • Running
  • Fat Tree
    • Configuring
  • Slim Fly
    • Configuring
  • Torus
  • Express Mesh and HyperX
  • Interpreting Simulation Output
    • Statistics Reported by LP-IO
• Four Steps to Simulations
  • 1. Prototype the system design
  • 2. Workload selection
    • Synthetic Workloads
    • HPC Application Traces
  • 3. Workload creation
    • Information in a Typical Trace
    • Effect of Replaying Traces
  • 4. Execution
• Expected Workflow