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T. Hoefler, T. Schneider and A. Lumsdaine:
	Accurately Measuring Collective Operations at Massive Scale (In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, PMEO'08 Workshop, presented in Miami, FL, ISSN: 1530-2075, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1694-3, Apr. 2008) Abstract Accurate, reproducible and comparable measurement of collective operations is a complicated task. Although Different measurement schemes are implemented in well-known benchmarks, many of these schemes introduce different systematic errors in their measurements. We characterize these errors and select a window-based approach as the most accurate method. However, this approach complicates measurements significantly and introduces a clock synchronization as a new source of systematic errors. We analyze approaches to avoid or correct those errors and develop a scalable synchronization scheme to conduct benchmarks on massively parallel systems. Our results are compared to the window-based scheme implemented in the SKaMPI benchmarks and show a reduction of the synchronization overhead by a factor of 16 on 128 processes. Documents download article: download slides:
	BibTeX
@inproceedings{hoefler-pmeo08,   author={T. Hoefler and T. Schneider and A. Lumsdaine},   title={{Accurately Measuring Collective Operations at Massive Scale}},   year={2008},   month={Apr.},   booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel \& Distributed Processing Symposium, PMEO'08 Workshop},   location={Miami, FL},   issn={1530-2075},   isbn={978-1-4244-1694-3},   source={http://www.unixer.de/~htor/publications/}, }