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Data Management Challenges of Exascale Scientific Simulations: A Case Study with the Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code and ADIOS...

Publication Type
Conference Paper
Book Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Methods
Publication Date
Page Numbers
493 to 503
Volume
6
Conference Name
10th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM 2019)
Conference Location
Singapore, Singapore
Conference Sponsor
Various
Conference Date
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The push towards exascale computing and the recent introduction of multi-petascale supercomputers have enabled science applications to run complex simulations. However, the gap between compute and I/O has grown wider, even as applications seek to generate and persist increasing amounts of data. Optimizing I/O is challenging and remains a bottleneck at scale. In this paper, we present initial I/O performance results of running Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code (GTC) on Summit, a 200 Petaflop system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. To manage the complex data in GTC, we use ADIOS, an I/O and data management middleware that provides a rich set of APIs to manage and interact with scientific data. We discuss optimizations performed to obtain improvements in I/O performance and identify a set of challenges that will drive the design and development of next generation data management libraries.