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Comparing Cross-Platform Performance via Node-to-Node Scaling Studies


Workshop: 2025 International Workshop on Performance, Portability, and Productivity in HPC (P3HPC)

Authors: Kenneth Weiss (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Abstract: Due to the increasing diversity of high-performance computing architectures, researchers and practitioners are increasingly interested in comparing a code’s performance and scalability across different platforms. However, there is a lack of available guidance on how to actually set up and analyze such cross-platform studies. In this talk, we contend that the natural base unit of computing for such studies is a single compute node on each platform and offer guidance in setting up, running, and analyzing node-to-node scaling studies. We propose templates for presenting scaling results of these studies and provide several case studies highlighting the benefits of this approach.


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