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Reproducibility and Performance: Why Choose? (2203.07953v1)

Published 15 Mar 2022 in cs.DC and cs.SE

Abstract: Research processes often rely on high-performance computing (HPC), but HPC is often seen as antithetical to "reproducibility": one would have to choose between software that achieves high performance, and software that can be deployed in a reproducible fashion. However, by giving up on reproducibility we would give up on verifiability, a foundation of the scientific process. How can we conciliate performance and reproducibility? This article looks at two performance-critical aspects in HPC: message passing (MPI) and CPU micro-architecture tuning. Engineering work that has gone into performance portability has already proved fruitful, but some areas remain unaddressed when it comes to CPU tuning. We propose package multi-versioning, a technique developed for GNU Guix, a tool for reproducible software deployment, and show that it allows us to implement CPU tuning without compromising on reproducibility and provenance tracking.

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