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Hugo, Gabrielle

Publications and source records attributed to Hugo, Gabrielle.

3 records

DOE OSTI2024

Evaluating Performance Portability with the CMS Heterogeneous Pixel Reconstruction code

In the past years the landscape of tools for expressing parallel algorithms in a portable way across various compute accelerators has continued to evolve significantly. There are many technologies on the market that provide portability between CPU, GPUs from several vendors, and in some cases even FPGAs. These technologies include C++ libraries such as Alpaka and Kokkos, compiler directives such as OpenMP, the SYCL open specification that can be implemented as a library or in a compiler, and standard C++ where the compiler is solely responsible for the offloading. Given this developing landscape, users have to choose the technology that best fits their applications and constraints. For example, in the CMS experiment the experience so far in heterogeneous reconstruction algorithms suggests that the full application contains a large number of relatively short computational kernels and memory transfer operations. In this work we use a stand-alone version of the CMS heterogeneous pixel reconstruction code as a realistic use case of HEP reconstruction software that is capable of leveraging GPUs effectively. We summarize the experience of porting this code base from CUDA to Alpaka, Kokkos, SYCL, std::par, and OpenMP offloading. We compare the event processing throughput achieved by each version on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs as well as on a CPU, and compare those to what a native version of the code achieves on each platform.

Andriotis, Nikolaos↗

DOE OSTI2023

Performance portability for the CMS Reconstruction with Alpaka

For CMS, Heterogeneous Computing is a powerful tool to face the computational challenges posed by the upgrades of the LHC, and will be used in production at the High Level Trigger during Run 3. In principle, to offload the computational work on non-CPU resources, while retaining their performance, different implementations of the same code are required. This would introduce code-duplication which is not sustainable in terms of maintainability and testability of the software. Performance portability libraries allow to write code once and run it on different architectures with close-to-native performance. The CMS experiment is evaluating performance portability libraries for the near term future.

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DOE OSTI2021

CMS Full Simulation for Run 3

We report the status of the CMS full simulation for Run 3. During the long shutdown of the LHC a significant update has been introduced to the CMS code for simulation. The CMS geometry description is reviewed. Several important modifications were needed. CMS detector description software is migrated to the DD4Hep community developed tool. We will report on our experience obtained during the process of this migration. Geant4 10.7 is the CMS choice for Run 3 simulation productions. We will discuss arguments for this choice, the strategy of adaptation of a new Geant4 version, and will report on the physics performance of the CMS simulation. A special Geant4 Physics List configuration FTFP_BERT_EMM will be described, which provides a compromise between simulation accuracy and CPU performance. A significant fraction of time for simulation of CMS events is spent on tracking of charged particles in a magnetic field. In the CMS simulation a dynamic choice of Geant4 parameters for tracking in field is implemented. A new method is introduced into simulation of electromagnetic components of hadronic showers in the electromagnetic calorimeter of CMS. For low-energy electrons and positrons a parametrization of GFlash type is applied. Results of tests of this method will be discussed. In summary, we expect about 25% speedup of the CMS simulation production for Run 3 compared to the Run 2 simulations.

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