Presentation
Enforcing Crash Consistency of Scientific Applications in Non-Volatile Main Memory Systems
Event Type
Workshop
W
Extreme Scale Computing
Fault Tolerance
Reliability
Resiliency
TimeFriday, 22 November 20199:10am - 9:35am
Location301-302-303
DescriptionTo fully leverage the emerging non-volatile main memory (NVMM) for high-performance computing, programmers need efficient data structures that are aware of NVMM memory models and provide crash consistency. Manual creation of NVMM-aware persistent data structures requires a deep understanding of how and when to create persistent snapshots of memory objects corresponding to the data structures and substantial code modification, which makes it very difficult to use in its manual form even for experienced programmers. To simplify the process, we design a compiler-assistant technique, NVPath. With the aid of compilers, it automatically generates NVMM-aware persistent data structures which provide the same level of guarantee of crash consistency compared to the baseline code. Compiler-assistant code annotation and transformation is general and can be applied to applications using various data structures. Furthermore, it is a gray-box technique which requires minimum users’ input. Finally, it keeps the baseline code structure for good readability and maintenance. Our experimental results with real-world scientific applications (e.g., matrix multiplication, LU decomposition, adaptive-mesh refinement, and page ranking) show that the performance of annotated programs is commensurate with the version using the manual code transformation on the Titan supercomputer.
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