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Evaluating Emerging CXL-enabled Memory Pooling for HPC Systems

11/04/2022
by   Jacob Wahlgren, et al.
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Current HPC systems provide memory resources that are statically configured and tightly coupled with compute nodes. However, workloads on HPC systems are evolving. Diverse workloads lead to a need for configurable memory resources to achieve high performance and utilization. In this study, we evaluate a memory subsystem design leveraging CXL-enabled memory pooling. Two promising use cases of composable memory subsystems are studied – fine-grained capacity provisioning and scalable bandwidth provisioning. We developed an emulator to explore the performance impact of various memory compositions. We also provide a profiler to identify the memory usage patterns in applications and their optimization opportunities. Seven scientific and six graph applications are evaluated on various emulated memory configurations. Three out of seven scientific applications had less than 10 memory backed 75 dynamically configured high-bandwidth system can effectively support bandwidth-intensive unstructured mesh-based applications like OpenFOAM. Finally, we identify interference through shared memory pools as a practical challenge for adoption on HPC systems.

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