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In this paper, we examine the performance of a suite of applications on three different architectures: Edison, a Cray XC30 with Intel Ivy Bridge processors; Hopper and Cielo, both Cray XE6’s with AMD Magny–Cours processors; and Mira, an IBM BlueGene/Q with PowerPC A2 processors. The applications chosen are a subset of the applications used in a joint procurement effort between Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. Strong scaling results are presented, using both MPI-only and MPI+OpenMP execution models.
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Cordery, M.J. et al. (2014). Analysis of Cray XC30 Performance Using Trinity-NERSC-8 Benchmarks and Comparison with Cray XE6 and IBM BG/Q. In: Jarvis, S., Wright, S., Hammond, S. (eds) High Performance Computing Systems. Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation. PMBS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8551. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10214-6_3
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