Pub Date : 2019-06-01DOI: 10.1142/S0129626419500087
Pranav Arunandhi, E. Cheng, Christopher Melekian
Given a graph [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], the Steiner distance [Formula: see text] is the minimum size among all connected subgraphs of [Formula: see text] whose vertex sets contain [Formula: see text]. The Steiner [Formula: see text]-diameter [Formula: see text] is the maximum value of [Formula: see text] among all sets of [Formula: see text] vertices. In this short note, we study the Steiner [Formula: see text]-diameters of the tensor product of complete graphs.
{"title":"A Note on the Steiner k-Diameter of Tensor Product Networks","authors":"Pranav Arunandhi, E. Cheng, Christopher Melekian","doi":"10.1142/S0129626419500087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129626419500087","url":null,"abstract":"Given a graph [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], the Steiner distance [Formula: see text] is the minimum size among all connected subgraphs of [Formula: see text] whose vertex sets contain [Formula: see text]. The Steiner [Formula: see text]-diameter [Formula: see text] is the maximum value of [Formula: see text] among all sets of [Formula: see text] vertices. In this short note, we study the Steiner [Formula: see text]-diameters of the tensor product of complete graphs.","PeriodicalId":422436,"journal":{"name":"Parallel Process. Lett.","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116461558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-06-01DOI: 10.1142/S0129626419500075
Chen Hao, Weihua Yang
The generalized [Formula: see text]-connectivity of a graph [Formula: see text] is a parameter that can measure the reliability of a network [Formula: see text] to connect any [Formula: see text] vertices in [Formula: see text], which is a generalization of traditional connectivity. Let [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] denote the maximum number [Formula: see text] of edge-disjoint trees [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text] for any [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. For an integer [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text], the generalized [Formula: see text]-connectivity of a graph [Formula: see text] is defined as [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. Data centers are essential to the business of companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft et al. Based on data centers, the data center networks [Formula: see text], introduced by Guo et al. in 2008, have many desirable properties. In this paper, we study the generalized [Formula: see text]-connectivity of [Formula: see text] and show that [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text].
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Pub Date : 2019-05-10DOI: 10.1142/S0129626419500038
Shane Carroll, Wei-Ming Lin
We propose a variation of round-robin ordering in an multi-threaded pipeline to increase system throughput and resource distribution fairness. We show that using round robin with a typical arbitrary ordering results in inefficient use of shared resources and subsequent thread starvation. To address this but still use a simple round-robin approach, we optimally and dynamically sort the order of the round robin periodically at runtime. We show that with 4-threaded workloads, throughput can be improved by over 9% and harmonic throughput by over 3% by sorting thread order at run time. We experiment with multiple stages of the pipeline and show consistent results throughout several experiments using the SPEC CPU 2006 benchmarks. Furthermore, since the technique is still a simple round robin, the increased performance requires little overhead to implement.
为了提高系统吞吐量和资源分配的公平性,我们提出了一种在多线程管道中进行循环排序的方法。我们表明,使用具有典型任意顺序的轮循会导致共享资源的低效使用和随后的线程饥饿。为了解决这个问题,但仍然使用简单的轮询方法,我们在运行时周期性地对轮询顺序进行优化和动态排序。我们表明,对于4线程工作负载,通过在运行时对线程顺序进行排序,吞吐量可以提高9%以上,协调吞吐量可以提高3%以上。我们对管道的多个阶段进行了实验,并在使用SPEC CPU 2006基准测试的几个实验中显示出一致的结果。此外,由于该技术仍然是一个简单的轮询,因此提高的性能只需要很少的开销来实现。
{"title":"Round Robin Thread Selection Optimization in Multithreaded Processors","authors":"Shane Carroll, Wei-Ming Lin","doi":"10.1142/S0129626419500038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129626419500038","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a variation of round-robin ordering in an multi-threaded pipeline to increase system throughput and resource distribution fairness. We show that using round robin with a typical arbitrary ordering results in inefficient use of shared resources and subsequent thread starvation. To address this but still use a simple round-robin approach, we optimally and dynamically sort the order of the round robin periodically at runtime. We show that with 4-threaded workloads, throughput can be improved by over 9% and harmonic throughput by over 3% by sorting thread order at run time. We experiment with multiple stages of the pipeline and show consistent results throughout several experiments using the SPEC CPU 2006 benchmarks. Furthermore, since the technique is still a simple round robin, the increased performance requires little overhead to implement.","PeriodicalId":422436,"journal":{"name":"Parallel Process. Lett.","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131793475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-10DOI: 10.1142/S0129626419500014
A. A. Hassan, V. Cardellini, P. D'Ambra, D. Serafino, S. Filippone
Many scientific applications require the solution of large and sparse linear systems of equations using Krylov subspace methods; in this case, the choice of an effective preconditioner may be crucial for the convergence of the Krylov solver. Algebraic MultiGrid (AMG) methods are widely used as preconditioners, because of their optimal computational cost and their algorithmic scalability. The wide availability of GPUs, now found in many of the fastest supercomputers, poses the problem of implementing efficiently these methods on high-throughput processors. In this work we focus on the application phase of AMG preconditioners, and in particular on the choice and implementation of smoothers and coarsest-level solvers capable of exploiting the computational power of clusters of GPUs. We consider block-Jacobi smoothers using sparse approximate inverses in the solve phase associated with the local blocks. The choice of approximate inverses instead of sparse matrix factorizations is driven by the large amount of parallelism exposed by the matrix-vector product as compared to the solution of large triangular systems on GPUs. The selected smoothers and solvers are implemented within the AMG preconditioning framework provided by the MLD2P4 library, using suitable sparse matrix data structures from the PSBLAS library. Their behaviour is illustrated in terms of execution speed and scalability, on a test case concerning groundwater modelling, provided by the Jülich Supercomputing Center within the Horizon 2020 Project EoCoE.
{"title":"Efficient Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioners on Clusters of GPUs","authors":"A. A. Hassan, V. Cardellini, P. D'Ambra, D. Serafino, S. Filippone","doi":"10.1142/S0129626419500014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129626419500014","url":null,"abstract":"Many scientific applications require the solution of large and sparse linear systems of equations using Krylov subspace methods; in this case, the choice of an effective preconditioner may be crucial for the convergence of the Krylov solver. Algebraic MultiGrid (AMG) methods are widely used as preconditioners, because of their optimal computational cost and their algorithmic scalability. The wide availability of GPUs, now found in many of the fastest supercomputers, poses the problem of implementing efficiently these methods on high-throughput processors. In this work we focus on the application phase of AMG preconditioners, and in particular on the choice and implementation of smoothers and coarsest-level solvers capable of exploiting the computational power of clusters of GPUs. We consider block-Jacobi smoothers using sparse approximate inverses in the solve phase associated with the local blocks. The choice of approximate inverses instead of sparse matrix factorizations is driven by the large amount of parallelism exposed by the matrix-vector product as compared to the solution of large triangular systems on GPUs. The selected smoothers and solvers are implemented within the AMG preconditioning framework provided by the MLD2P4 library, using suitable sparse matrix data structures from the PSBLAS library. Their behaviour is illustrated in terms of execution speed and scalability, on a test case concerning groundwater modelling, provided by the Jülich Supercomputing Center within the Horizon 2020 Project EoCoE.","PeriodicalId":422436,"journal":{"name":"Parallel Process. Lett.","volume":"93 Suppl 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128836650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-10DOI: 10.1142/S012962641950004X
Jinho Ahn
This paper proposes an enhanced Fully Informed Communication-Induced Checkpointing (FI-CIC) protocol to highly improve the possibility of detecting Z-cycle free patterns with no extra control message by utilizing the advantageous feature of the broadcast network in an effective way compared with the original FI-CIC protocol. Experimental results show that our protocol outperforms the previous one in terms of the number of forced checkpoints per process.
{"title":"Efficient Communication Induced Checkpointing Protocol for Broadcast Network-based Distributed Systems","authors":"Jinho Ahn","doi":"10.1142/S012962641950004X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S012962641950004X","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an enhanced Fully Informed Communication-Induced Checkpointing (FI-CIC) protocol to highly improve the possibility of detecting Z-cycle free patterns with no extra control message by utilizing the advantageous feature of the broadcast network in an effective way compared with the original FI-CIC protocol. Experimental results show that our protocol outperforms the previous one in terms of the number of forced checkpoints per process.","PeriodicalId":422436,"journal":{"name":"Parallel Process. Lett.","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131335845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-10DOI: 10.1142/S0129626419500026
Saptaparni Kumar, J. Welch
We present an implementation of the eventually perfect failure detector [Formula: see text] from the original hierarchy of the Chandra-Toueg [3] oracles on an arbitrary partitionable network composed of unreliable channels that can lose and reorder messages. Prior implementations of [Formula: see text] have assumed different partially synchronous models ranging from bounded point-to-point message delay and reliable communication to unbounded message size and known network topologies. We implement [Formula: see text] under very weak assumptions on an arbitrary, partitionable network composed of Average Delayed/Dropped (ADD) channels [11] to model unreliable communication. Unlike older implementations, our failure detection algorithm uses bounded-sized messages to eventually detect all nodes that are unreachable (crashed or disconnected) from it.
{"title":"Implementing ♢P with Bounded Messages on a Network of ADD Channels","authors":"Saptaparni Kumar, J. Welch","doi":"10.1142/S0129626419500026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129626419500026","url":null,"abstract":"We present an implementation of the eventually perfect failure detector [Formula: see text] from the original hierarchy of the Chandra-Toueg [3] oracles on an arbitrary partitionable network composed of unreliable channels that can lose and reorder messages. Prior implementations of [Formula: see text] have assumed different partially synchronous models ranging from bounded point-to-point message delay and reliable communication to unbounded message size and known network topologies. We implement [Formula: see text] under very weak assumptions on an arbitrary, partitionable network composed of Average Delayed/Dropped (ADD) channels [11] to model unreliable communication. Unlike older implementations, our failure detection algorithm uses bounded-sized messages to eventually detect all nodes that are unreachable (crashed or disconnected) from it.","PeriodicalId":422436,"journal":{"name":"Parallel Process. Lett.","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128911554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-18DOI: 10.1142/S0129626421500134
Junwei Zhang, Yang Liu, Shi Li, T. Robertazzi
A novel framework is proposed to find efficient data intensive flow distributions on Networks on Chip (NoC). Voronoi diagram techniques are used to divide a NoC array of homogeneous processors and links into clusters. A new mathematical tool, named the flow matrix, is proposed to find the optimal flow distribution for individual clusters. Individual flow distributions on clusters are reconciled to be more evenly distributed. This leads to an efficient makespan and a significant savings in the number of cores actually used. The approach here is described in terms of a mesh interconnection but is suitable for other interconnection topologies.
{"title":"Optimizing Data Intensive Flows for Networks on Chips","authors":"Junwei Zhang, Yang Liu, Shi Li, T. Robertazzi","doi":"10.1142/S0129626421500134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129626421500134","url":null,"abstract":"A novel framework is proposed to find efficient data intensive flow distributions on Networks on Chip (NoC). Voronoi diagram techniques are used to divide a NoC array of homogeneous processors and links into clusters. A new mathematical tool, named the flow matrix, is proposed to find the optimal flow distribution for individual clusters. Individual flow distributions on clusters are reconciled to be more evenly distributed. This leads to an efficient makespan and a significant savings in the number of cores actually used. The approach here is described in terms of a mesh interconnection but is suitable for other interconnection topologies.","PeriodicalId":422436,"journal":{"name":"Parallel Process. Lett.","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122494265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1142/S0129626418500160
Christian Schmitt, Moritz Schmid, S. Kuckuk, H. Köstler, Jürgen Teich, Frank Hannig
Not only in the field of high-performance computing (HPC), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are a soaringly popular accelerator technology. However, they use a completely different programming paradigm and tool set compared to central processing units (CPUs) or even graphics processing units (GPUs), adding extra development steps and requiring special knowledge, hindering widespread use in scientific computing. To bridge this programmability gap, domain-specific languages (DSLs) are a popular choice to generate low-level implementations from an abstract algorithm description. In this work, we demonstrate our approach for the generation of numerical solver implementations based on the multigrid method for FPGAs from the same code base that is also used to generate code for CPUs using a hybrid parallelization of MPI and OpenMP. Our approach yields in a hardware design that can compute up to 11 V-cycles per second with an input grid size of 4096[Formula: see text]4096 and solution on the coarsest using the conjugate gradient (CG) method on a mid-range FPGA, beating vectorized, multi-threaded execution on an Intel Xeon processor.
{"title":"Reconfigurable Hardware Generation of Multigrid Solvers with Conjugate Gradient Coarse-Grid Solution","authors":"Christian Schmitt, Moritz Schmid, S. Kuckuk, H. Köstler, Jürgen Teich, Frank Hannig","doi":"10.1142/S0129626418500160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129626418500160","url":null,"abstract":"Not only in the field of high-performance computing (HPC), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are a soaringly popular accelerator technology. However, they use a completely different programming paradigm and tool set compared to central processing units (CPUs) or even graphics processing units (GPUs), adding extra development steps and requiring special knowledge, hindering widespread use in scientific computing. To bridge this programmability gap, domain-specific languages (DSLs) are a popular choice to generate low-level implementations from an abstract algorithm description. In this work, we demonstrate our approach for the generation of numerical solver implementations based on the multigrid method for FPGAs from the same code base that is also used to generate code for CPUs using a hybrid parallelization of MPI and OpenMP. Our approach yields in a hardware design that can compute up to 11 V-cycles per second with an input grid size of 4096[Formula: see text]4096 and solution on the coarsest using the conjugate gradient (CG) method on a mid-range FPGA, beating vectorized, multi-threaded execution on an Intel Xeon processor.","PeriodicalId":422436,"journal":{"name":"Parallel Process. Lett.","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124187311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1142/S0129626418500135
M. Lu, Shurong Zhang, Weihua Yang
It is well known that an [Formula: see text]-dimensional torus [Formula: see text] is Hamiltonian. Then the torus [Formula: see text] contains a spanning subgraph which is 2-regular and 2-connected. In this paper, we explore a strong property of torus networks. We prove that for any even integer [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text], the torus [Formula: see text] contains a spanning subgraph which is [Formula: see text]-regular, k-connected and bipancyclic; and if [Formula: see text] is odd, the result holds when some [Formula: see text] is even.
众所周知,一个[公式:见文]维环面[公式:见文]是哈密顿的。那么环面[公式:见正文]包含一个2正则2连通的生成子图。本文探讨环面网络的一个强性质。我们用[公式:见文]证明了对于任意偶数[公式:见文],环面[公式:见文]包含一个生成子图,该子图为[公式:见文]-正则,k连通,双环;如果[Formula: see text]是奇数,当[Formula: see text]是偶数时,结果成立。
{"title":"Regular Connected Bipancyclic Spanning Subgraphs of Torus Networks","authors":"M. Lu, Shurong Zhang, Weihua Yang","doi":"10.1142/S0129626418500135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129626418500135","url":null,"abstract":"It is well known that an [Formula: see text]-dimensional torus [Formula: see text] is Hamiltonian. Then the torus [Formula: see text] contains a spanning subgraph which is 2-regular and 2-connected. In this paper, we explore a strong property of torus networks. We prove that for any even integer [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text], the torus [Formula: see text] contains a spanning subgraph which is [Formula: see text]-regular, k-connected and bipancyclic; and if [Formula: see text] is odd, the result holds when some [Formula: see text] is even.","PeriodicalId":422436,"journal":{"name":"Parallel Process. Lett.","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126919466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1142/S0129626418500172
Tianlong Ma, Y. Mao, E. Cheng, Jinling Wang
The matching preclusion number of a graph is the minimum number of edges whose deletion results in a graph that has neither perfect matchings nor almost perfect matchings. As a generalization, Liu and Liu introduced the concept of fractional matching preclusion number in 2017. The Fractional Matching Preclusion Number (FMP number) of G is the minimum number of edges whose deletion leaves the resulting graph without a fractional perfect matching. The Fractional Strong Matching Preclusion Number (FSMP number) of G is the minimum number of vertices and/or edges whose deletion leaves the resulting graph without a fractional perfect matching. In this paper, we obtain the FMP number and the FSMP number for (n, k)-star graphs. In addition, all the optimal fractional strong matching preclusion sets of these graphs are categorized.
{"title":"Fractional Matching Preclusion for (n, k)-Star Graphs","authors":"Tianlong Ma, Y. Mao, E. Cheng, Jinling Wang","doi":"10.1142/S0129626418500172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129626418500172","url":null,"abstract":"The matching preclusion number of a graph is the minimum number of edges whose deletion results in a graph that has neither perfect matchings nor almost perfect matchings. As a generalization, Liu and Liu introduced the concept of fractional matching preclusion number in 2017. The Fractional Matching Preclusion Number (FMP number) of G is the minimum number of edges whose deletion leaves the resulting graph without a fractional perfect matching. The Fractional Strong Matching Preclusion Number (FSMP number) of G is the minimum number of vertices and/or edges whose deletion leaves the resulting graph without a fractional perfect matching. In this paper, we obtain the FMP number and the FSMP number for (n, k)-star graphs. In addition, all the optimal fractional strong matching preclusion sets of these graphs are categorized.","PeriodicalId":422436,"journal":{"name":"Parallel Process. Lett.","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125482865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}