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Integrated System and Application Continuous Performance Monitoring and Analysis Capability

Aaziz, Omar·Allan, Benjamin·Brandt, James·Cook, Jeanine·Devine, Karen·Elliott, James·Gentile, Ann·Hammond, Simon·Kelley, Brian·Lopatina, Lena·Moore, Stan·Olivier, Stephen·Pedretti, Kevin·Poliakoff, David·Pawlowski, Roger·Regier, Phillip·Schmitz, Mark·Schwaller, Benjamin·Surjadidjaja, Vanessa·Swan, Matthew Scot·Tucker, Nick·Tucker, Thomas·Vaughan, Courtenay·Walton, Sara
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Abstract

Scientific applications run on high-performance computing (HPC) systems are critical for many national security missions within Sandia and the NNSA complex. However, these applications often face performance degradation and even failures that are challenging to diagnose. To provide unprecedented insight into these issues, the HPC Development, HPC Systems, Computational Science, and Plasma Theory & Simulation departments at Sandia crafted and completed their FY21 ASC Level 2 milestone entitled "Integrated System and Application Continuous Performance Monitoring and Analysis Capability." The milestone created a novel integrated HPC system and application monitoring and analysis capability by extending Sandia's Kokkos application portability framework, Lightweight Distributed Metric Service (LDMS) monitoring tool, and scalable storage, analysis, and visualization pipeline. The extensions to Kokkos and LDMS enable collection and storage of application data during run time, as it is generated, with negligible overhead. This data is combined with HPC system data within the extended analysis pipeline to present relevant visualizations of derived system and application metrics that can be viewed at run time or post run. This new capability was evaluated using several week-long, 290-node runs of Sandia's ElectroMagnetic Plasma In Realistic Environments ( EMPIRE ) modeling and design tool and resulted in 1TB of application data and 50TB of system data. EMPIRE developers remarked this capability was incredibly helpful for quickly assessing application health and performance alongside system state. In short, this milestone work built the foundation for expansive HPC system and application data collection, storage, analysis, visualization, and feedback framework that will increase total scientific output of Sandia's HPC users.

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Aaziz, Omar, Allan, Benjamin, Brandt, James, Cook, Jeanine, Devine, Karen, Elliott, James, Gentile, Ann, Hammond, Simon, Kelley, Brian, Lopatina, Lena, Moore, Stan, Olivier, Stephen, Pedretti, Kevin, Poliakoff, David, Pawlowski, Roger, Regier, Phillip, Schmitz, Mark, Schwaller, Benjamin, Surjadidjaja, Vanessa, Swan, Matthew Scot, Tucker, Nick, Tucker, Thomas, Vaughan, Courtenay, Walton, Sara. 2021-09-01. Integrated System and Application Continuous Performance Monitoring and Analysis Capability. https://doi.org/10.2172/1819812

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