MPI
Sep 10, 2024
Accelerating the HPCG Benchmark with NVIDIA Math Sparse Libraries
In the realm of high-performance computing (HPC), NVIDIA has continually advanced HPC by offering its highly optimized NVIDIA High-Performance Conjugate...
9 MIN READ
Nov 15, 2022
Scaling VASP with NVIDIA Magnum IO
You could make an argument that the history of civilization and technological advancement is the history of the search and discovery of materials. Ages are...
22 MIN READ
Jun 28, 2021
Accelerating Scientific Applications in HPC Clusters with NVIDIA DPUs Using the MVAPICH2-DPU MPI Library
High-performance computing (HPC) and AI have driven supercomputers into wide commercial use as the primary data processing engines enabling research, scientific...
7 MIN READ
Jun 23, 2021
Achieve up to 75% Performance Improvement for Communication Intensive HPC Applications with NVTAGS
Many GPU-accelerated HPC applications spend a substantial portion of their time in non-uniform, GPU-to-GPU communications. Additionally, in many HPC systems,...
2 MIN READ
Apr 07, 2016
Fast Multi-GPU collectives with NCCL
Today many servers contain 8 or more GPUs. In principle then, scaling an application from one to many GPUs should provide a tremendous performance boost. But in...
10 MIN READ
May 05, 2015
GPU Pro Tip: Track MPI Calls In The NVIDIA Visual Profiler
Often when profiling GPU-accelerated applications that run on clusters, one needs to visualize MPIĀ (Message Passing Interface) calls on the GPU timeline in the...
5 MIN READ
Oct 07, 2014
Benchmarking GPUDirect RDMA on Modern Server Platforms
NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA is a technology which enables a direct path for data exchange between the GPU and third-party peer devices using standard features of PCI...
13 MIN READ
Jun 19, 2014
CUDA Pro Tip: Profiling MPI Applications
When I profile MPI+CUDA applications, sometimes performance issues only occur for certain MPI ranks. To fix these, it's necessary to identify the MPI rank where...
4 MIN READ
Mar 27, 2013
Benchmarking CUDA-Aware MPI
I introduced CUDA-aware MPI in my last post, with an introduction to MPI and a description of the functionality and benefits of CUDA-aware MPI. In this post I...
8 MIN READ
Mar 13, 2013
An Introduction to CUDA-Aware MPI
MPI, the Message Passing Interface, is a standard API for communicating data via messages between distributedĀ processes that isĀ commonly used in HPC to build...
11 MIN READ