Towards End-To-End SDC Detection for HPC Applications Equipped with Lossy Compression

Abstract

Data reduction techniques have been widely demanded and used by large-scale high performance computing (HPC) applications because of vast volumes of data to be produced and stored for post-analysis. Due to very limited compression ratios of lossless compressors, error-bounded lossy compression has become an indispensable part in many HPC applications nowadays, because it can significantly reduce science data volume with user-acceptable data distortion. Since the large-scale HPC applications equipped with lossy compression techniques always need to deal with vast volume of data, soft errors or silent data corruptions (SDC) are non-negligible. Although SDC detection techniques have been studied for years, no studies were performed toward the HPC applications with lossy compression, leaving a significant gap between these applications and confidence of execution results. To fill this gap, this paper proposes a couple of SDC detection strategies for scientific simulations with lossy compression. Experimental results on 4 widely used scientific simulation datasets show promising detection ability could be still obtained with two popular lossy compressors. Our parallel experiments with up to 1,024 cores confirm that the time overheads could be limited within 7.9%.

Meeting Name

2020 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC (2020: Sep. 14-17, Kobe, Japan)

Department(s)

Computer Science

Comments

This research was supported by the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), Project Number: 17-SC-20-SC. This research is also supported by NSF Award No. 1513201.

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-172816677-3

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1552-5244

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Sep 2020

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