Scaling perf

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Peter Boyle
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#!/bin/bash
# Node count scan for Grid's tests/IO/Test_aggregate_io on Aurora, 12 ranks
# per node. The Aurora counterpart of systems/Frontier/aggregate_io_scaling.slurm.
#
# Everything that could confound the comparison is held fixed and only the
# number of Lustre clients changes:
#
# local volume 8.8.32.128 = 262144 sites x 576 B = 151 MB / rank
# aggregation k=2, row of 16, 8 extents of 18 MB (identical at
# every node count)
# old path contiguous run = lLattice[0]*576 = 4.6 KB (identical too)
#
# So the ratio of contiguous extent between the two layout preserving paths
# is a constant 4000x across the whole scan, and any change in their relative
# bandwidth is a property of the client count alone.
#
# The mpi decompositions differ from the Frontier scan because 12 ranks per
# node is not 8, but they were chosen to give the SAME aggregation plan --
# verified with MPI_benchmark/io_mpi, which uses the identical plan algorithm
# and the same 576 B site object:
#
# Frontier 4.4.2.1 at 32 ranks -> k=2, row 16, 8 extents
# Aurora 4.4.3.1 at 48 ranks -> k=2, row 16, 8 extents
# Aurora 4.4.12.8 at 1536 ranks -> k=2, row 16, 8 extents
#
# Consequence of 12 rather than 8: at a given NODE count the record and the
# client count are 1.5x Frontier's. Compare the machines at equal RANK count
# for equal record size, or at equal NODE count for each machine used as it
# is meant to be used. Say which one any table is reporting.
#
# Trim the tail of the run list for a smaller allocation; the geometries are
# independent.
#
# Submit from the BUILD directory.
#PBS -q prod
#PBS -l filesystems=flare
#PBS -l filesystems=home
#PBS -l select=128
#PBS -l walltime=02:00:00
#PBS -A 15479
##PBS -A LatticeQCD_aesp_CNDA
cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
cp $PBS_NODEFILE nodefile
root=$HOME/Grid/systems/Aurora # <-- adjust to your source tree
source ${root}/sourceme.sh
TILE=${root}/benchmarks/gpu_tile.sh
BIN=$PBS_O_WORKDIR/tests/IO/Test_aggregate_io
[ -x $BIN ] || { echo "no $BIN -- submit from the build directory"; exit 1; }
[ -x $TILE ] || { echo "no $TILE -- check \$root"; exit 1; }
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=4
export MPICH_OFI_NIC_POLICY=GPU
# MPICH_DBG_* and MPICH_MPIIO_STATS are deliberately absent: at 1536 ranks
# they produce gigabytes of log and perturb the timings they would explain.
# Get those from systems/Aurora/aggregate_io.pbs on the debug queue.
# PROJECT is the flare project DIRECTORY name, not the -A account number.
PROJECT=LatticeQCD_aesp_CNDA
WORK=/lus/flare/projects/$PROJECT/$USER/aggscale.$PBS_JOBID
mkdir -p $WORK || { echo "cannot create $WORK -- set PROJECT correctly"; exit 1; }
cd $WORK
# The largest rung writes three files of 232 GB, so budget ~700 GB for the
# scan and check the quota before submitting. The test unlinks its three
# files at the start of each run, so that is peak, not cumulative.
#
# Do NOT stripe by default. Measured on FRONTIER at 128 nodes / 1024 ranks,
# 154.6 GB record, best of 3 (MB/s) -- these are Frontier numbers, quoted for
# what to look for, not a prediction for Aurora:
#
# default layout lfs setstripe -c -1 -S 8M
# raw 97673 81728
# MPI-IO lexicographic 31675 77534
# aggregate 189535 86063
#
# The two layout preserving paths want opposite things. Wide striping is
# what rescues MPI-IO at scale, 32 -> 78 GB/s; it costs the aggregate path a
# factor of 2.2 and costs raw as well. With the default layout MPI-IO
# plateaued at ~30 GB/s from 64 nodes upward while the aggregate path kept
# scaling. Uncomment only to reproduce that interaction, and record which.
#lfs setstripe -c -1 -S 8M $WORK
lfs getstripe -d $WORK 2>/dev/null || echo "(no lfs getstripe -- not Lustre?)"
ARGS="--aggregate-target 4194304 --io-no-correctness --io-reps 3"
AT=8
run () { # run <nodes> <grid> <mpi> <comment>
local nodes=$1 nranks=$(( $1 * 12 ))
echo
echo "==================================================================="
echo "=== SCAN nodes=$nodes ranks=$nranks grid=$2 mpi=$3 $4"
echo "==================================================================="
mpiexec -np $nranks -ppn 12 -envall $TILE $BIN --grid $2 --mpi $3 \
--shm-mpi 0 --shm 2048 --device-mem 32000 --accelerator-threads $AT $ARGS
echo "=== exit $?"
}
# nodes global lattice decomposition record
run 4 32.32.96.128 4.4.3.1 "7.2 GB"
run 8 32.32.96.256 4.4.3.2 "14.5 GB"
run 16 32.32.96.512 4.4.3.4 "29.0 GB"
run 32 32.32.192.512 4.4.6.4 "58.0 GB"
run 64 32.32.192.1024 4.4.6.8 "116.0 GB"
run 128 32.32.384.1024 4.4.12.8 "231.9 GB"
echo
echo "=== done. Files left in $WORK"
echo "=== For cold read numbers, submit a SECOND job on a fresh allocation"
echo "=== with WORK pointed at this directory and --io-read-only added to"
echo "=== ARGS. Reading back what this job wrote only measures page cache."
ls -l $WORK