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2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
An Investigation into the Performance of Reduction Algorithms under Load Imbalance
verfasst von : Petar Marendić, Jan Lemeire, Tom Haber, Dean Vučinić, Peter Schelkens
Erschienen in: Euro-Par 2012 Parallel Processing
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Today, most reduction algorithms are optimized for balanced workloads; they assume all processes will start the reduction at about the same time. However, in practice this is not always the case and significant load imbalances may occur and affect the performance of said algorithms. In this paper we investigate the impact of such imbalances on the most commonly employed reduction algorithms and propose a new algorithm specifically adapted to the presented context. Firstly, we analyze the optimistic case where we have a priori knowledge of all imbalances and propose a near-optimal solution. In the general case, where we do not have any foreknowledge of the imbalances, we propose a dynamically rebalanced tree reduction algorithm. We show experimentally that this algorithm performs better than the default OpenMPI and MVAPICH2 implementations.