PSTSWM AlphaSC-500 Point-to-Point Communication Performance

Performance Studies using

PSTSWM


Compaq AlphaServer SC SWAP Performance

(unordered swap of 2MB message using MPI between two nodes)

(performance measured per processor when all processors in node communicating)

Date/Person: January 26, 2000 / P. Worley
Platform: Compaq AlphaServer SC at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (colt.ccs.ornl.gov):
     16 ES40 4-way SMP nodes (500 MHz Alpha 21264 with 4MB L2 cache)
Environment: Digital UNIX V5.0;   RMS 2.36
Communication Library: MPI
SWAP size: 262144 REAL*8 floating point values each direction
Message size: Largest - 262144 REAL*8 floating point values
Smallest - 256 REAL*8 floating point values
Processors: 0 and 4
1 and 5
2 and 6
3 and 7
Latency Definition:(T1024-T512)/512
Model Error Range:[1,1024]
Results:

unordered simple swap
Data Statistics
bidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 39.67 34.65 98.3%
10 iter. 40.32 32.13 91.0%

unordered swap using nonblocking send
Data Statistics
bidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 39.07 24.14 68.5%
10 iter. 39.35 22.97 1.0%
1 iter. w/overlap 41.86 35.83 51.1%
10 iter. w/overlap 40.44 35.31 3.0%

unordered swap using nonblocking receive
Data Statistics
bidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 39.35 23.32 1.5%
10 iter. 39.55 23.51 1.4%
1 iter. w/overlap 39.35 25.80 2.7%
10 iter. w/overlap 39.53 24.35 2.1%

unordered swap using nonblocking send and receive
Data Statistics
bidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 39.34 22.36 1.2%
10 iter. 39.54 22.33 1.0%
1 iter. w/overlap 39.46 22.39 0.9%
10 iter. w/overlap 40.02 25.43 1.4%

unordered swap using ready send
Data Statistics
bidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 39.34 46.11 1.8%
10 iter. 39.52 45.91 1.5%
1 iter. w/overlap 39.34 25.47 2.5%
10 iter. w/overlap 39.54 24.15 1.9%

unordered swap using nonblocking ready send
Data Statistics
bidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 39.31 46.54 2.0%
10 iter. 39.53 45.22 1.1%
1 iter. w/overlap 39.36 22.22 1.0%
10 iter. w/overlap 39.64 25.58 2.3%

native sendrecv
Data Statistics
bidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 39.36 23.35 1.5%
10 iter. 39.53 23.17 1.3%

unordered swap using nonblocking sync. send
Data Statistics
bidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 39.29 21.96 1.5%
10 iter. 39.50 22.68 0.6%
1 iter. w/overlap 39.26 29.70 2.3%
10 iter. w/overlap 39.48 30.61 2.9%

unordered swap using nonblocking receive with sync. send
Data Statistics
bidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 39.35 23.16 1.4%
10 iter. 39.55 23.72 1.6%
1 iter. w/overlap 39.37 24.89 2.1%
10 iter. w/overlap 39.55 24.51 2.0%

unordered swap using nonblocking sync. send and receive
Data Statistics
bidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 39.33 22.61 1.2%
10 iter. 39.54 22.75 1.1%
1 iter. w/overlap 39.38 21.98 0.8%
10 iter. w/overlap 40.01 25.51 1.4%


Protocol Sensitivity Summary for Bidirectional Swap of 2097152 Bytes (1 iterations/no overlap)
Runtime Statistics
Msg Sizemin Secmin Sec/Msgmax MBytes/Sec(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  2048   1.2817e-01   1.2517e-04   32.72   0.05   0.01   0.18 
  4096   1.1673e-01   2.2798e-04   35.93   0.02   0.01   0.10 
  8192   1.1143e-01   4.3529e-04   37.64   0.01   0.00   0.05 
  16384   1.0922e-01   8.5329e-04   38.40   0.01   0.00   0.02 
  32768   1.0779e-01   1.6842e-03   38.91   0.00   0.00   0.01 
  65536   1.0710e-01   3.3468e-03   39.16   0.00   0.00   0.01 
  131072   1.0572e-01   6.6074e-03   39.67   0.01   0.01   0.02 
  262144   1.0662e-01   1.3328e-02   39.34   2.70   0.00   26.95 
  524288   1.0659e-01   2.6648e-02   39.35   5.25   0.00   51.84 
  1048576   1.0656e-01   5.3281e-02   39.36   6.05   0.00   58.26 
  2097152   1.0660e-01   1.0660e-01   39.34   1.45   0.00   14.43 
Five Fastest
Protocols
Msg Size1st2nd3rd4th5th
  2048   3   9   2   6   8 
  4096   3   2   6   9   8 
  8192   6   8   2   9   3 
  16384   8   3   2   9   6 
  32768   6   3   9   2   8 
  65536   8   9   3   6   2 
  131072   0   7   8   2   9 
  262144   8   3   6   2   9 
  524288   6   8   3   2   9 
  1048576   6   8   2   3   9 
  2097152   4   6   2   8   9 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
Msg Size1%5%25%
  2048    6   7   10 
  4096    7   8   10 
  8192    7   9   10 
  16384    7   10   10 
  32768    10   10   10 
  65536    10   10   10 
  131072    2   10   10 
  262144    8   9   9 
  524288    8   8   8 
  1048576    7   8   8 
  2097152    7   8   9 


Protocol Sensitivity Summary for Bidirectional Swap of 2097152 Bytes (10 iterations/no overlap)
Runtime Statistics
Msg Sizemin Secmin Sec/Msgmax MBytes/Sec(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  2048   1.2779e-01   1.2479e-04   32.82   0.05   0.01   0.18 
  4096   1.1635e-01   2.2725e-04   36.05   0.03   0.01   0.10 
  8192   1.1110e-01   4.3398e-04   37.75   0.02   0.00   0.05 
  16384   1.0883e-01   8.5020e-04   38.54   0.01   0.00   0.02 
  32768   1.0733e-01   1.6770e-03   39.08   0.00   0.00   0.01 
  65536   1.0667e-01   3.3334e-03   39.32   0.00   0.00   0.00 
  131072   1.0576e-01   6.6098e-03   39.66   0.01   0.01   0.01 
  262144   1.0478e-01   1.3098e-02   40.03   0.01   0.01   0.02 
  524288   1.0402e-01   2.6005e-02   40.32   0.02   0.02   0.03 
  1048576   1.0605e-01   5.3024e-02   39.55   0.00   0.00   0.01 
  2097152   1.0606e-01   1.0606e-01   39.55   0.99   0.00   9.92 
Five Fastest
Protocols
Msg Size1st2nd3rd4th5th
  2048   3   9   6   2   8 
  4096   3   8   9   6   2 
  8192   8   3   2   9   6 
  16384   6   2   8   9   3 
  32768   7   2   6   3   9 
  65536   2   3   0   6   9 
  131072   0   7   8   9   3 
  262144   0   3   8   2   9 
  524288   0   6   8   9   2 
  1048576   0   3   6   9   8 
  2097152   2   8   9   5   3 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
Msg Size1%5%25%
  2048    7   7   10 
  4096    7   7   10 
  8192    7   8   10 
  16384    7   10   10 
  32768    9   10   10 
  65536    10   10   10 
  131072    10   10   10 
  262144    1   10   10 
  524288    1   10   10 
  1048576    9   10   10 
  2097152    8   9   9 


Protocol Sensitivity Summary for Bidirectional Swap of 2097152 Bytes (1 iterations with overlap)
Runtime Statistics
Msg Sizemin Secmin Sec/Msgmax MBytes/Sec(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  2048   1.2803e-01   1.2503e-04   32.76   0.03   0.01   0.10 
  4096   1.1662e-01   2.2778e-04   35.96   0.01   0.00   0.05 
  8192   1.1163e-01   4.3604e-04   37.57   0.01   0.00   0.03 
  16384   1.0930e-01   8.5390e-04   38.37   0.01   0.00   0.02 
  32768   1.0699e-01   1.6718e-03   39.20   0.01   0.01   0.02 
  65536   1.0689e-01   3.3403e-03   39.24   0.00   0.00   0.00 
  131072   1.0568e-01   6.6049e-03   39.69   0.01   0.01   0.01 
  262144   1.0567e-01   1.3208e-02   39.69   2.39   0.01   23.81 
  524288   1.0648e-01   2.6621e-02   39.39   4.56   0.00   45.58 
  1048576   1.0654e-01   5.3272e-02   39.37   4.00   0.00   39.10 
  2097152   1.0019e-01   1.0019e-01   41.86   7.42   0.06   73.65 
Five Fastest
Protocols
Msg Size1st2nd3rd4th5th
  2048   9   5   3   8   4 
  4096   2   3   5   4   9 
  8192   2   4   8   5   9 
  16384   9   2   5   8   3 
  32768   3   4   8   2   5 
  65536   5   3   1   2   9 
  131072   0   3   1   5   9 
  262144   1   3   9   5   2 
  524288   3   5   9   8   2 
  1048576   8   9   2   4   3 
  2097152   1   9   8   4   6 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
Msg Size1%5%25%
  2048    3   7   10 
  4096    7   10   10 
  8192    7   10   10 
  16384    7   10   10 
  32768    7   10   10 
  65536    10   10   10 
  131072    4   10   10 
  262144    6   9   9 
  524288    8   9   9 
  1048576    7   8   8 
  2097152    1   1   9 


Protocol Sensitivity Summary for Bidirectional Swap of 2097152 Bytes (10 iterations with overlap)
Runtime Statistics
Msg Sizemin Secmin Sec/Msgmax MBytes/Sec(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  2048   1.2859e-01   1.2558e-04   32.62   0.03   0.01   0.09 
  4096   1.1617e-01   2.2690e-04   36.10   0.01   0.00   0.05 
  8192   1.1122e-01   4.3447e-04   37.71   0.01   0.00   0.04 
  16384   1.0891e-01   8.5082e-04   38.51   0.01   0.00   0.02 
  32768   1.0712e-01   1.6738e-03   39.15   0.00   0.00   0.02 
  65536   1.0625e-01   3.3203e-03   39.48   0.00   0.00   0.01 
  131072   1.0555e-01   6.5969e-03   39.74   0.01   0.01   0.01 
  262144   1.0403e-01   1.3004e-02   40.32   0.02   0.02   0.02 
  524288   1.0371e-01   2.5926e-02   40.44   0.02   0.02   0.02 
  1048576   1.0431e-01   5.2153e-02   40.21   0.01   0.02   0.02 
  2097152   1.0511e-01   1.0511e-01   39.91   1.67   0.01   16.64 
Five Fastest
Protocols
Msg Size1st2nd3rd4th5th
  2048   4   2   8   3   5 
  4096   2   3   4   5   9 
  8192   2   5   3   4   8 
  16384   3   5   9   2   4 
  32768   3   5   9   2   4 
  65536   9   5   1   3   0 
  131072   0   1   9   5   3 
  262144   0   1   9   3   5 
  524288   1   0   3   9   5 
  1048576   1   9   3   0   8 
  2097152   1   9   8   5   6 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
Msg Size1%5%25%
  2048    6   8   10 
  4096    7   8   10 
  8192    8   10   10 
  16384    7   10   10 
  32768    8   10   10 
  65536    10   10   10 
  131072    10   10   10 
  262144    2   10   10 
  524288    2   10   10 
  1048576    3   10   10 
  2097152    8   9   9 

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