A Case Study on DaCe Portability & Performance for Batched Discrete Fourier Transforms

With the emergence of new computer architectures, portability and performance-portability become significant concerns for developing HPC applications. This work reports our experience and lessons learned using DaCe to create and optimize batched Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) calculations on different single node computer systems. The batched DFT calculation is an essential component in FFT algorithms and is widely used in computer science, numerical analysis, and signal processing. We implement the batched DFT with three complex-value array data layouts and compare them with the native complex type implementation. We use DaCe, which relies on Stateful DataFlow multiGraphs (SDFG) as an intermediate representation (IR) which can be optimized through transforms and then generates code for different architectures. We present several performance results showcasing the potential of DaCe for expressing HPC applications on different computer systems.