A28: Exploring Use Cases for Non-Volatile Memories in
Support of HPC Resilience
SessionPoster Reception
Author
Event Type
ACM Student Research Competition
Poster
Reception
TimeTuesday, November 14th5:15pm -
7pm
LocationFour Seasons Ballroom
DescriptionImproving resilience and creating resilient
architectures is one of the major goals of exascale
computing. With the advent of Non-volatile memory
technologies, memory architectures with persistent
memory regions will be a significant part of future
architectures. There is potential to use them in more
than one way to benefit different applications. We look
to take advantage of this technology to enable more
fine-grained and novel methodology that will improve
resilience and efficiency of exascale applications. We
have developed three modes of memory usage for
persistent memory to enable efficient checkpointing in
HPC applications. We have developed a simple API that is
evaluated with the DGEMM benchmark on a 16-node cluster
with independent SSDs on every node. Our aim is to build
on this work and enable static and dynamic runtime
systems that will inherently make the HPC applications
more fault-tolerant and resistant to errors.
