@inproceedings{da3ba8f130634b7991043651c84b1cac,
title = "10,000 performance models per minute – scalability of the UG4 simulation framework",
abstract = "Numerically addressing scientific questions such as simulating drug diffusion through the human stratum corneum is a challenging task requiring complex codes and plenty of computational resources. The UG4 framework is used for such simulations, and though empirical tests have shown good scalability so far, its sheer size precludes analytical modeling of the entire code. We have developed a process which combines the power of our automated performance modeling method and the workflow manager JUBE to create insightful models for entire UG4 simulations. Examining three typical use cases, we identified and resolved a previously unknown latent scalability bottleneck. In collaboration with the code developers, we validated the performance expectations in each of the use cases, creating over 10,000 models in less than a minute, a feat previously impossible without our automation techniques.",
author = "Andreas Vogel and Alexandru Calotoiu and Alexandre Strube and Sebastian Reiter and Arne N{\"a}gel and Felix Wolf and Gabriel Wittum",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015.; 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2015 ; Conference date: 24-08-2015 Through 28-08-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-662-48096-0_40",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783662480953",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "519--531",
editor = "Traff, {Jesper Larsson} and Sascha Hunold and Francesco Versaci",
booktitle = "Euro-Par 2015",
address = "Germany",
}