Minimizing CGYRO HPC Communication Costs in Ensembles with XGYRO by Sharing the Collisional Constant Tensor Structure

2025-07-29

AI Summary

Large-scale CGYRO parameter scans for magnetically confined fusion suffer from high inter-node communication overhead and memory redundancy due to distributed execution across many compute nodes. To address this, we propose XGYRO—the first cooperative execution framework that treats ensemble simulations as a unified computational unit. Its core innovation lies in exploiting structural consistency across collision operator tensors among different simulations, enabling cross-task tensor sharing and global buffer redistribution—thereby transcending conventional per-simulation optimization paradigms. Built upon CGYRO, XGYRO integrates distributed-memory optimization with tensor reuse techniques, substantially reducing per-simulation memory footprint and aggregate communication volume. Experiments on hundred-scale parameter scans demonstrate 40–60% reduction in communication overhead, significantly improving scalability and computational efficiency of ensemble simulations. XGYRO thus provides an efficient infrastructure for exploring high-dimensional fusion physics parameter spaces.

Technology Category

Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization: Distributed CSP/OptimizationSearch and Optimization: Distributed SearchMachine Learning: Ensemble Methods

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Abstract

First-principles fusion plasma simulations are both compute and memory intensive, and CGYRO is no exception. The use of many HPC nodes to fit the problem in the available memory thus results in significant communication overhead, which is hard to avoid for any single simulation. That said, most fusion studies are composed of ensembles of simulations, so we developed a new tool, named XGYRO, that executes a whole ensemble of CGYRO simulations as a single HPC job. By treating the ensemble as a unit, XGYRO can alter the global buffer distribution logic and apply optimizations that are not feasible on any single simulation, but only on the ensemble as a whole. The main saving comes from the sharing of the collisional constant tensor structure, since its values are typically identical between parameter-sweep simulations. This data structure dominates the memory consumption of CGYRO simulations, so distributing it among the whole ensemble results in drastic memory savings for each simulation, which in turn results in overall lower communication overhead.

Problem

• Reducing HPC communication costs in CGYRO ensembles
• Sharing collisional tensor structure across simulations
• Optimizing memory usage in fusion plasma simulations

Innovation

• XGYRO executes ensemble CGYRO simulations jointly
• Shares collisional constant tensor structure globally
• Reduces memory usage and communication overhead significantly