Performance Measurements within Asynchronous Task-Based Runtime Systems: A Double White Dwarf Merger as an Application

Analyzing performance within asynchronous many-task-based runtime systems is challenging because millions of tasks are launched concurrently. Especially for long-term runs, the amount of data collected becomes overwhelming. We study HPX and its performance-counter framework and autonomic performance environment for Exascale to collect performance data and energy consumption. We added HPX application-specific performance counters to the Octo-Tiger full 3-D adaptive multigrid code astrophysics application. This enables the combined visualization of physical and performance data to highlight bottlenecks with respect to different solvers. We examine the overhead introduced by these measurements, which is around 1%, with respect to the overall application runtime. We perform a resolution study for four different levels of refinement and analyze the application\u27s performance with respect to adaptive grid refinement. The measurements\u27 overheads are small, enabling the combined use of performance data and physical properties with the goal of improving the code\u27s performance. All runs were obtained on NERSC\u27s Cori, Louisiana Optical Network Infrastructure\u27s QueenBee2, and Indiana University\u27s Big Red 3