User:Kmanni

Personal Information

I am a senior majoring in mathematics and computer science. I am working with Dr. Rong Ge in the High Performance Computing Lab

Week 1 (June 1, 2010 - June 4, 2010)

Reading

• R. Hood, J. Haoqiang, P. Mehrotra, J. Chang, J. Djomehri, S. Gavali, D. Jespersen, K. Taylor, and R. Biswas. Performance Impact of Resource Contention in Multicore Systems. NAS Division - NASA Research Center, 2010.
• S. Alam, P. Argarwal, S. Hampton, and H. Ong . Experimental Evaluation of Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Multi-core Systems. In Proceedings of HiPC, volume 5374 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 131-141, 2008.
• S.R. Alam, R.F. Barrett, J.A. Kuehn, P.C. Rother, and J.S. Vetter. Characterization of Scientific Workloads on Systems with Multi-core Processors. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Worklaod Characterization, pages 225-236, Oct. 2006.
• L. Chai, Q. Gao, and D. Panda. Understanding the Impact of Multi-core Architecture in Cluster Computing: A Case Study with Intel Dual-core System. In CCGRID '07: Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, pages 471-478, 2007.
• H. Jin, R. Hood, P. Mehrotra, J. Chang, J. Djomehri, D. Jespersen, R. Biswas, and K. Taylor. Characterizing Application Performance Sensitivity to Resource Contention in Multicore Architectures. Technical Report NAS-09-002, NASA Ames Research Center, 2009.

Research

• Read over uses of the High Performance Computing Challenge (HPCC) benchmarks.
• Reviewed previous work with matrix multiplication.

REU Activities

• Attended REU orientation meeting with Dr. Brylow and Dr. Factor.
• Set up and learned how to use student Wiki page.

Week 2 (June 7, 2010 - June 11, 2010)

Reading

• A Kayi, Y. Yao, T. El-Ghazawi, and G. Newby. Experimental Evaluation of Emerging Multi-core Architectures. In Proceedings of IEEE Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symp., March 2007.

Research

• Installed HPCC benchmark suite.
• Installed Performance Application Programming Interface (PAPI).
• Installed MPICH2.
• Went through code for each HPCC benchmark.
• Started tutorial for HPCC.

REU Activities

• Lunch to discuss progress

Week 3 (June 14, 2010 - June 18, 2010)

Reading

• Reviewed previous papers and identified areas of possible redundancy.
• Analyzed performance of systems similar to the one I will use.

Research

• Read through tutorial for how each HPCC benchmark is measured.

Week 4 (June 21, 2010 - June 25, 2010)

Research

• Installed and fully tested CBLAS interface to BLAS.
• Worked on installation process for independent High-Performance Linpack (HPL).
• Reviewed differences between BLAS, CBLAS, LAPACK, and HPL.
• Met with Dr. Ge to discuss progress and problems thus far.

REU Activities

• Attended talk on guidelines and techniques for research papers and presentations.

• Read through tutorial for how each HPCC benchmark is measured.

Week 5 (June 28, 2010 - July 2, 2010)

Research

• Began installation of ATLAS (required for compiling HPL).
• Began installation of GCC v.4.2.4 (updated version required for installation of ATLAS).
• Installed and tested updated MPFR (updated version required for GCC installation).
• Installed updated GMP (updated version required for GCC installation).
• Applied for account on Père cluster.

Week 6 (July 5, 2010 - July 9, 2010)

Research

• Read through user guide for using Père cluster.