Accelerating Parallel Write via Deeply Integrating Predictive Lossy Compression with HDF5
SessionCompression
DescriptionLossy compression is one of the most efficient solutions to reduce storage overhead and improve I/O performance for HPC applications. However, existing parallel I/O libraries cannot fully utilize lossy compression to accelerate parallel write due to the lack of deep understanding on compression-write performance. To this end, we propose to deeply integrate predictive lossy compression with HDF5 to significantly improve parallel-write performance. Specifically, we propose analytical models to predict the time of compression and parallel write before the actual compression to enable compression-write overlapping. We also introduce an extra space to handle the prediction uncertainty. Moreover, we propose an optimization to reorder the compression tasks to increase the overlapping efficiency. Experiments with up to 4,096 cores show that our solution improves the write performance by up to 4.5x and 2.9x over the non-compression and lossy compression solutions, respectively, with only 1.5% storage overhead (to original data) on two real-world applications.
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TimeThursday, 17 November 202210:30am - 11am CST
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