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HPL is a parallel Linpack benchmark package widely adopted in massive cluster system performance test. On HPL data layout among processors, a law to determine block size NB theoretically, which breaks through dependence on trial-and-error experiments, is found based on in-depth analysis of blocked parallel solution algorithm of linear algebra equations and implementation mechanics in HPL. According to that law, an emulation model to toughly estimate HPL execution time is constructed. Verified by real system, the model is used to do some scientific prevision on the benefits to Linpack test brought by intending system improvement, such as respectively memory size increase, communication bandwidth increase and so on. It is expected to conduce to direct system improvement on optimizing HPL test in the future.
This research is supported by Chinese National High-tech Research and Development (863) Program (grants 2003AA 1Z2070) and by the foundation of Knowledge Innovation Program (grants 20036040), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
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Zhang, W., Chen, M., Fan, J. (2004). HPL Performance Prevision to Intending System Improvement. In: Cao, J., Yang, L.T., Guo, M., Lau, F. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications. ISPA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3358. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30566-8_90
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