It's not a shared memory architecture. Work can't shift around between processors. And you need things like locking, as I mentioned, to avoid race conditions or erroneous computation. Use OCW to guide your own life-long learning, or to teach others. The computation is done and you can move on. So you might have seen in the previous talk and the previous lecture, it was SIMD, single instruction or same instruction, multiple data, which allowed you to execute the same operation, you know, and add over multiple data elements. How are the processes identified? Granularity -- you know, how do you partition your data among your different processors so that you can keep communication down, so you can keep synchronization down, and so on. Although you can imagine that in each one of these circles there's some really heavy load computation. The convergence of these distinct markets offers an I've made extra work for myself [? So communication factors really change. Complex calculations, like training deep learning models or running large-scale simulations, can take an extremely long time. And then you may need some way of sort of synchronizing these different processors that say, I'm done, I can move on to the next computation steps. If the isoprofit line is not parallel to a constant, then the solution must be unique. Most shared memory architectures are non-uniform, also known as NUMA architecture. In addition to covering general parallelism concepts, this text teaches practical programming skills for both shared memory and distributed memory architectures. But if you have a really tiny buffer, then you do a send. AUDIENCE: If you don't have to acknowledge that something's done can't you just say, [? And if she gave me more than one processor -- so let's say I have five processors. Each one of these is a core. And then P1 and P2 can now sort of start computing in parallel. The first one, your parallel pragma, I call the data parallel pragma, really says that you can execute as many of the following code block as there are processors or as many as you have thread contexts. There is no mechanism for reduction either. Should I go over it again? And I'm going to write it to buffer one. I calculate d here and I need that result to calculate e. But then this loop really here is just assigning or it's initializing some big array. I'm using sort of generic abstract sends, receives and broadcasts in my examples. Yeah, because communication is such an intensive part, there are different ways of dealing with it. The higher they are, except for bandwidth, because it's in the denominator here, the worse your communication cost becomes. Now this could be because one processor is faster than another. And this is computation that you want to parallelize. I do have to get the data because otherwise I don't know what to compute on. Everybody can access it. And if you sort of don't take that into consideration, you end up paying a lot for overhead for parallelizing things. Here's n elements to read from A. And that helps you in sort of making sure that things are operating reasonably in lock step at, you know, partially ordered times. C# Sharp programming exercises, practice, solution: C# is an elegant and type-safe object-oriented language that enables developers to build a variety of secure and robust applications that run on the .NET Framework. But that data is going to go into a different buffer, essentially B1. P2 is really fast so it's just zipping through things. And so that's shown here. and software, due 11:59PM, Thurs., Dec. 13. So it really increased utilization and spent less and less time being idle. But then I pass in the function pointer. So now this -- the MPI essentially encapsulates the computation over n processors. And if I have, you know, an addition that feeds into a shift, well, I can put the addition here and the shift there, but that means I have a really long path that I need to go to in terms of communicating that data value around. I can just send, you know, in this case, one particular element. Or my parallel version is 1.67 times faster. And so just recapping the last two lectures, you saw really two primary classes of architectures. PROFESSOR: Right. So if there's a lot of congestion on your road or, you know, there are posted speed limits or some other mechanism, you really can't exploit all the speed of your car. And what master can do instead of doing computation, master can be basically the quarterback, sending data, receiving data. Each of those bars is some computation. This is the same color coding scheme that David's using in the recitations. So what does it need for that instruction to complete? So this is a one here. contemporary parallel programmingmodels, OK, so this kind of computation and communication overlap really helps in hiding the latency. Here I do another addition. Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming (CMU 15-418/618) This page contains practice exercises to help you understand material in the course. Learn about condition variables, semaphores, barriers, thread pools, and more. Because the PPE in that case has to send the data to two different SPEs. But you can get super linear speedups ups on real architectures because of secondary and tertiary effects that come from register allocation or caching effects. Does that sort of hint at the answer? And you can go on and terminate. And this instruction here essentially flips the bit. People are confused? So you only know that the message was sent. So I'm going to show you an example of sort of a more detailed MPI. OK. And so you can keep helping out, you know, your other processors to compute things faster. The forum was organized in 1992. ISBN. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science So what you do is you shoot rays from a particular source through your plane. So this is kind of like your fax machine. So there were already some good questions as to, well, you know, how does this play into overall execution? Because that means the master slows down. So let's say I have processor one and processor two and they're trying to send messages to each other. And in effect I've serialized the computation. Good point. machine is ?] And there's no extra messaging that would have to happen across processors that says, I'm ready, or I'm ready to send you data, or you can move on to the next step. So you write the data into the buffer and you just continue executing. So five in this case. Basically you get a communication goal and you have to go start the messages and wait until everybody is done. And then I'm going to change the ID. The other person can't do the send because the buffer hasn't been drained. Students will perform four programming So that overhead also can go. Send to friends and colleagues. Leveraging multiple cores is easy for most serverapplications, where each thread can independently handle a separate clientrequest, but is harder on the desktop — because it typically requires that youtake your computationally intensive code … performance. And so if every pair of you added your numbers and forwarded me that, that cuts down communication by half. And this get is going to write data into buffer one. So in the load balancing problem, you essentially have, let's say, three different threads of computation. So before I actually show you that, I just want to point out that there are two kinds of messages. I need all those results before I do final substraction and produce my final result. Gregory Mankiw > 215- Analog Integrated Circuit Design , u/e, by Johns, Martin > 216-introduction to fluid mechanics 6th edition By Alan T. McDonald, > Robert W Fox > 217-Mechanics of Fluids 8th Edn - Massey & John Ward-Smith It could be really efficient for sending short control messages, maybe even efficient for sending data messages. And then I start working. So when a processor, P1, asks for X it knows where to go look. And static mapping just means, you know, in this particular example, that I'm going to assign the work to different processors and that's what the processors will do. But you get no parallelism in this case. PROFESSOR: So in terms of tracing, processor one sends the data and then can immediately start executing its code, right? So an example of that might be the Cell, loosely said, where you have cores that primarily access their own local memory. OK, so what is a source of deadlock in the blocking case? A broadcast mechanism is slightly different. You can have some collective operations. I flip the bit again. What is the bandwidth that I have across a link? And then it goes on and does more work. So you have different kinds of parallelisms. Does that make sense? But really the thing to take away here is that this granularity -- how I'm partitioning A -- affects my performance and communication almost directly. You have this particular loop. And things that appear in sort of this lightish pink will serve as sort of visual cues. concreting ?] Learn parallelization concepts and techniques guided by parallel patterns used in real software. So an SPE does some work, and then it writes out a message, in this case to notify the PPU that, let's say, it's done. A, B, and C. And you have the basic functions. So that might be one symmetrical [UNINTELLIGIBLE]. And, really, granularity from my perspective, is just a qualitative measure of what is the ratio of your computation to your communication? And this can actually affect, you know, how much work is it worth spending on this particular application? Parallel Programming: Concepts and Practice 1st Edition by Bertil Schmidt Ph.D. (Author), Jorge Gonzalez-Dominguez Ph.D. (Author), Christian Hundt (Author), & 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating. One is how is the data described and what does it describe? There are different ways of exploiting it, and that comes down to, well, how do I subdivide my problem? ISBN-10: 0128498900. Yep? There's same program, multiple data, and multiple program, multiple data. Well, you know, if I send a message to somebody, do I have any guarantee that it's received or not? PROFESSOR: Right. So it is essentially a template for the code you'll end up writing. And it's the time to do the parallel work. So dynamic load balancing is intended to sort of give equal amounts of work in a different scheme for processors. PROFESSOR: So last week, last few lectures, you heard about parallel architectures and started with lecture four on discussions of concurrency. So these are color coded. That clear so far? [UNINTELLIGIBLE PHRASE] you can all have some of that. AUDIENCE: Like before, you really didn't have to give every single processor an entire copy of B. And it has some place that it's already allocated where it's going to write C, the results of the computation, then I can break up the work just like it was suggested. So this is great. 209-215), Chapter 5.2-5.7, 5.10 (pgs. But I also want to contrast this to the OpenMP programming on shared memory processors because one might look simpler than the other. PROFESSOR: Yeah, you can get a reply. So I'm fully serial. So this numerator here is really an average of the data that you're sending per communication. You know, you can put something, put in a request to send data out on the DMA. Basically, instead of having one big x86 processor, you could have 16, 32, 64, and so on, up to maybe 256 small x86 processors on one die. L5: Parallel Programming Concepts. And then you get to an MPI reduce command at some point that says, OK, what values did everybody compute? Thanks. [? I don't have to send B to everybody. Its value won't have any effect on the overall computation because each computation will have its own local copy. An asynchronous send, it's like you write a letter, you go put it in the mailbox, and you don't know whether it actually made it into the actual postman's bag and it was delivered to your destination or if it was actually delivered. You can do some architectural tweaks or maybe some software tweaks to really get the network latency down and the overhead per message down. I do computations but, you know, computation doesn't last very long. PROFESSOR: There is no broadcast on Cell. So we'll get into terminology for how to actually name these communications later. And so what you want to get to is the concept of the steady state, where in your main loop body, all you're doing is essentially pre-fetching or requesting data that's going to be used in future iterations for future work. So you can broadcast A to everybody. Freely browse and use OCW materials at your own pace. And you certainly could do sort of a hybrid load balancing, static plus dynamic mechanism. No enrollment or registration. So the computation naturally should just be closer together because that decreases the latency that I need to communicate. ?] The method also covers how to write specifications and how to use them. And that allows you to render scenes in various ways. And in my communication model here, I have one copy of one array that's essentially sending to every processor. I need both of these results before I can do this multiplication. So how do you get around this load balancing problem? You know, communication is not cheap. Wait until I have something to do. So you saw Amdahl's Law and it actually gave you a sort of a model that said when is parallelizing your application going to be worthwhile? So you have your array. And then I do another request for the next data item that I'm going to -- sorry, there's an m missing here -- I'm going to fetch data into a different buffer, right. We don't offer credit or certification for using OCW. A principles-first approach emphasizes the underlying concepts of parallel computation rather than taking a “how-to” approach for currently popular commercial tools. In the simplest sense, parallel computing is the simultaneous use of multiple compute resources to solve a computational problem: A problem is broken into discrete parts that can be solved concurrently Each part is further broken down to a series of instructions Instructions from each part execute simultaneously on different processors So work distribution might end up being uneven. How do you take applications or independent actors that want to operate on the same data and make them run safely together? In this series of hands-on lab exercises, the developer is presented with six basic DPC++ programs that illustrate the elements of a DPC++ application. True. It should be more, right? And that allows me to essentially improve performance because I overlap communication. In addition to covering general parallelism concepts, this text teaches practical programming skills for both shared memory and distributed memory architectures. So in blocking messages, a sender waits until there's some signal that says the message has been transmitted. And then computation can go on. So multiple threads can collaborate to solve the same computation, but each one does a smaller amount of work. You can essentially rename it on each processor. And what I want to do is for every point in A I want to calculate the distance to all of the points B. Or a reduce, which is the opposite. And it really boils down to how much parallelism you actually have in your particular algorithm. And as you saw in the previous slides, you have -- computation stages are separated by communication stages. It's really just a library that you can implement in various ways on different architectures. You can do some tricks as to how you package your data in each message. In addition to covering general parallelism concepts, this text teaches practical programming skills for both shared memory and distributed memory architectures. Modify, remix, and reuse (just remember to cite OCW as the source. So as an example of parallelization, you know, straightforward parallelization in a shared memory machine, would be you have the simple loop that's just running through an array. So that's showing here. So imagine that it essentially says, wait until I have data. I'm doing an addition. Well, it's equal to, well, how many messages am I sending and what is the frequency with which I'm sending them? You have one processor that's sending it to another processor. And similarly, if you're doing a receive here, make sure there's sort of a matching send on the other end. He essentially blocks until somebody has put data into the buffer. And so that's shown here: red, blue, and orange. To make a donation or view additional materials from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare at ocw. So in the synchronous communication, you actually wait for notification. So this is the actual code or computation that we want to carry out. Parallel Programming: Concepts and Practice provides an upper level introduction to parallel programming. So if you're doing a lot of computation, very little communication, you could be doing really well or vice versa. Parallel Programming: Concepts and Practice provides an upper level introduction to parallel programming. So then you go into your main loop. And now in my main program or in my main function, rather, what I do is I have this concept of threads that I'm going to create. And so there's this law which is really a demonstration of diminishing returns, Amdahl's Law. And then you calculate four iterations' worth. Of course, learning details about Knights Landing can be … So you have physically partitioned memories. PROFESSOR: So this is an [? MIT OpenCourseWare is a free & open publication of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. It's data parallel. Let's say if it's allocated on P1 or on some other processor. And you might add in some synchronization directives so that if you do in fact have sharing, you might want to use the right locking mechanism to guarantee safety. Yeah. There's static load balancing. PROFESSOR: Oh. There is a master there. algorithms using selected parallel programming models and measure their There's fine grain and, as you'll see, coarse grain. And SPEs can be basically waiting for data, get the computation, send it back. But the cost model is relatively captured by these different parameters. PROFESSOR: Well, you can do things in software as well. There are things like all to all communication which would also help you in that sense. When can I wait? And what I've done here is I've parameterized where you're essentially starting in the array. designed for applications that exploit tens of thousands of processors. Reference material and lecture videos are available on the References page. More opportunity for --. So I enter this mail loop and I do some calculation to figure out where to write the next data. Well, there are two different ways. But before you can start computing out of buffer zero, you just have to make sure that your data is there. And subtract -- sorry. And so different processors can communicate through shared variables. PROFESSOR: Yeah, so there's a -- I'll get into that later. These concepts will be used to describe several parallel computers. Courses And in a shared memory processor, since you're communicating -- since there's only a single memory, really you don't need to do anything special about the data in this particular example, because everybody knows where to go look for it. So I could have just said buffer equals zero or buffer equals one. And I can't do anything about this sequential work either. So how does that affect my overall speedups? So this is, for example if I'm writing data into a buffer, and the buffer essentially gets transmitted to somebody else, we wait until the buffer is empty. This isproblematic for us as programmers because our standard single-threaded codewill not automatically run faster as a result of those extra cores. We'll get into that. There's data messages, and these are, for example, the arrays that I'm sending around to different processors for the distance calculations between points in space. And this really helps you in terms of avoiding idle times and deadlocks, but it might not always be the thing that you want. So in this animation here, I start off. Each thread runs independently of the others, although they can all access the same shared memory space (and hence they can communicate with each other if necessary). Three of them are here and you'll see the others are MPI send and MPI receive. There's some network, some basic computation elements. 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