The design of ultra scalable MPI collective communication on the K computer

摘要

This paper proposes the design of ultra scalable MPI collective communication for the K computer, which consists of 82,944 computing nodes and is the world’s first system over 10 PFLOPS. The nodes are connected by a Tofu interconnect that introduces six dimensional mesh/torus topology. Existing MPI libraries, however, perform poorly on such a direct network system since they assume typical cluster environments. Thus, we design collective algorithms optimized for the K computer.