@article{10902/13658,
year = {2017},
month = {12},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/13658},
abstract = {The Graph500 benchmark attempts to steer the design of High-Performance Computing sys-tems to maximize the performance under memory-constricted application workloads. A realisticsimulation of such benchmarks for architectural research is challenging due to size and detail lim-itations. By contrast, synthetic traffic workloads constitute one of the least resource-consumingmethods to evaluate the performance. In this work, we provide a simulation tool for networkarchitects that need to evaluate the suitability of their interconnect for BigData applications. Ourdevelopment is a low computation- and memory-demanding synthetic traffic model that emu-lates the behavior of the Graph500 communications and is publicly available in an open-sourcenetwork simulator. The characterization of network traffic is inferred from a profile of several exe-cutions of the benchmark with different input parameters. We verify the validity of the equationsin our model against an execution of the benchmark with a different set of parameters. Further-more, we identify the impact of the node computation capabilities and network characteristics inthe execution time of the model in a Dragonfly network.},
organization = {The authors would like to thank the European HiPEAC Network of Excellence for partially funding this work through a Collaboration Grant.They would like to thank as well Cristóbal Camarero for his help. This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education, FPUgrants FPU13/00337 and FPU14/02253; the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness under contract TIN2016-76635-C2-2-R(AEI/FEDER, UE); and by the Mont-Blanc project. The Mont-Blanc project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 researchand innovation program under grant agreement 671697. Santander Supercomputacion support group from the University of Cantabria providedaccess to the Altamira Supercomputer at the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA-CSIC).},
publisher = {John Wiley & Sons},
publisher = {Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (2017), vol.19, n.24},
title = {A scalable synthetic traffic model of Graph500 for computer networks analysis},
author = {Fuentes Saez, Pablo and Benito Hoz, Mariano and Vallejo Gutiérrez, Enrique and Bosque Orero, José Luis and Beivide Palacio, Ramón and Anghel, Andreea and Rodríguez, Germán and Gusat, Mitch and Minkenberg, Cyriel and Valero, Mateo},
}