10–14 Oct 2016
San Francisco Marriott Marquis
America/Los_Angeles timezone

CMS Event Processing Multi-core Efficiency Status

10 Oct 2016, 11:30
15m
GG C1 (San Francisco Mariott Marquis)

GG C1

San Francisco Mariott Marquis

Oral Track 2: Offline Computing Track 2: Offline Computing

Description

In 2015, CMS was the first LHC experiment to begin using a multi-threaded framework for doing event processing. This new framework utilizes Intel's Thread Building Block library to manage concurrency via a task based processing model. During the 2015 LHC run period, CMS only ran reconstruction jobs using multiple threads because only those jobs were sufficiently thread efficient. Recent work now allows simulation and digitization to be thread efficient. In addition, during 2015 the multi-threaded framework could run events in parallel but could only use one thread per event. Work done in 2016 now allows multiple threads to be used while processing one event. In this presentation we will show how these recent changes have improved CMS's overall threading and memory efficiency and we will discuss work to be done to further increase those efficiencies.

Primary Keyword (Mandatory) Data processing workflows and frameworks/pipelines
Secondary Keyword (Optional) Parallelizarion

Author

Christopher Jones (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Presentation materials