2020/03/09 by Ardavan Oskooi, Oskooi, Ardavan, Christopher J. Hogan +7
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #Data Visualization and Analytics #FOS: Physical sciences #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #Scientific Computing and Data Management
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2003.04287
openalex publication_date 2020/03/09 · openalex created_date 2020/03/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We demonstrate neural-network runtime prediction for complex, many-parameter, massively parallel, heterogeneous-physics simulations running on cloud-based MPI clusters. Because individual simulations are so expensive, it is crucial to train the network on a limited dataset despite the potentially large input space of the physics at each point in the spatial domain. We achieve this using a two-part strategy. First, we perform data-driven static load balancing using regression coefficients extracted from small simulations, which both improves parallel performance and reduces the dependency of the runtime on the precise spatial layout of the heterogeneous physics. Second, we divide the execution time of these load-balanced simulations into computation and communication, factoring crude asymptotic scalings out of each term, and training neural nets for the remaining factor coefficients. This strategy is implemented for Meep, a popular and complex open-source electrodynamics simulation package, and are validated for heterogeneous simulations drawn from published engineering models.