Benchmarking Fortran DO CONCURRENT on CPUs and GPUs Using BabelStream

Jeff R Hammon*, Tom Deakin*, Jim H Cownie, Simon N McIntosh-Smith

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Abstract

Fortran DO CONCURRENT has emerged as a new
way to achieve parallel execution of loops on CPUs and GPUs.
This paper studies the performance portability of this construct
on a range of processors and compares it with the incumbent
models: OpenMP, OpenACC and CUDA. To do this study
fairly, we implemented the BabelStream memory bandwidth
benchmark from scratch, entirely in modern Fortran, for all of
the models considered, which include Fortran DO CONCURRENT,
as well as two variants of OpenACC, four variants of OpenMP
(2 CPU and 2 GPU), CUDA Fortran, and both loop- and
array-based references. BabelStream Fortran matches the C++
implementation as closely as possible, and can be used to make
language-based comparisons. This paper represents one of the
first detailed studies of the performance of Fortran support on
heterogeneous architectures; we include results for AArch64 and
x86 64 CPUs as well as AMD, Intel and NVIDIA GPU platforms.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS)
Subtitle of host publicationPMBS22
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages1-18
ISBN (Print)978-1-6654-5185-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Nov 2022
EventSC 2022 Workshops International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis - Dallas, United States
Duration: 13 Nov 202218 Nov 2022

Conference

ConferenceSC 2022 Workshops International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDallas
Period13/11/2218/11/22

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