JUNE 18–22, 2017
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY

Presentation Details

 
Name: gearshifft - The FFT Benchmark Suite for Heterogeneous Platforms
 
Time: Tuesday, June 20, 2017
01:45 pm - 02:15 pm
 
Room:   Panorama 3
Messe Frankfurt
 
Breaks:12:30 pm - 01:45 pm Lunch
 
Speaker:   Peter Steinbach, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics
 
Abstract:   Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) are exploited in a wide variety of fields ranging from computer science to natural sciences and engineering. With the rising data production bandwidths of modern FFT applications, judging best which algorithmic tool to apply, can be vital to any scientific endeavor. As tailored FFT implementations exist for an ever increasing variety of high performance computer hardware, choosing the best performing FFT implementation has strong implications for future hardware purchase decisions, for resources FFTs consume and for possibly decisive financial and time savings ahead of the competition. This paper therefor presents gearshifft, which is an open-source and vendor agnostic benchmark suite to process a wide variety of problem sizes and types with state-of-the-art FFT implementations (fftw, clFFT and cuFFT). gearshifft provides a reproducible, unbiased and fair comparison on a wide variety of hardware to explore which FFT variant is best for a given problem size.