PSTSWM AlphaSC-500 Point-to-Point Communication Performance

Performance Studies using

PSTSWM


Compaq AlphaServer SC SWAP Performance

(ordered swap of 8KB 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: 1024 REAL*8 floating point values each direction
Message size: Largest - 1024 REAL*8 floating point values
Smallest - 1 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:

ordered simple swap
Data Statistics
unidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 52.21 11.07 38.9%
10 iter. 37.14 11.01 25.4%

ordered swap using nonblocking send
Data Statistics
unidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 34.99 11.23 22.9%
10 iter. 37.32 11.17 24.1%
1 iter. w/overlap 34.98 10.81 26.9%
10 iter. w/overlap 36.73 11.58 27.3%

ordered swap using nonblocking receive
Data Statistics
unidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 36.09 12.37 10.3%
10 iter. 37.25 12.57 23.1%
1 iter. w/overlap 38.39 12.12 27.9%
10 iter. w/overlap 37.18 14.07 23.4%

ordered swap using nonblocking send and receive
Data Statistics
unidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 38.24 12.83 26.8%
10 iter. 37.53 13.01 22.2%
1 iter. w/overlap 35.71 12.92 23.6%
10 iter. w/overlap 37.46 14.66 22.2%

ordered swap using ready send
Data Statistics
unidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 32.91 27.37 26.4%
10 iter. 35.26 28.10 15.9%
1 iter. w/overlap 39.01 12.41 29.8%
10 iter. w/overlap 37.07 14.32 22.5%

ordered swap using nonblocking ready send
Data Statistics
unidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 34.79 28.03 12.9%
10 iter. 35.87 27.75 13.5%
1 iter. w/overlap 41.54 12.77 31.5%
10 iter. w/overlap 37.76 14.33 24.5%

synchronous
Data Statistics
unidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 34.59 29.11 20.6%
10 iter. 36.39 28.88 16.3%

ordered swap using nonblocking sync. send
Data Statistics
unidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 34.48 17.95 16.3%
10 iter. 37.21 18.00 11.4%
1 iter. w/overlap 36.93 17.30 15.6%
10 iter. w/overlap 36.43 18.31 11.9%

ordered swap using nonblocking receive with sync. send
Data Statistics
unidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 35.36 17.87 15.3%
10 iter. 36.82 18.19 10.4%
1 iter. w/overlap 35.82 17.29 11.4%
10 iter. w/overlap 37.57 19.36 10.6%

ordered swap using nonblocking sync. send and receive
Data Statistics
unidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 34.20 17.91 15.0%
10 iter. 37.02 18.25 12.3%
1 iter. w/overlap 34.86 18.14 12.7%
10 iter. w/overlap 37.28 19.20 9.2%

ordered simple swap using sync. send
Data Statistics
unidirectional bandwidth estimated latency model error
(peak MByte/sec) (usec/msg) (max. rel. error)
1 iter. 34.58 17.96 13.0%
10 iter. 37.16 18.11 11.3%


Protocol Sensitivity Summary for Unidirectional Swap of 8192 Bytes (1 iterations/no overlap)
Runtime Statistics
Msg Sizemin Secmin Sec/Msgmax MBytes/Sec(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  8   2.3076e-02   2.2535e-05   0.71   0.66   0.61   1.58 
  16   1.1737e-02   2.2925e-05   1.40   0.64   0.60   1.53 
  32   5.6826e-03   2.2198e-05   2.88   0.70   0.64   1.64 
  64   2.9720e-03   2.3219e-05   5.51   0.82   0.80   1.71 
  128   2.0470e-03   3.1984e-05   8.00   0.46   0.41   1.11 
  256   1.2626e-03   3.9456e-05   12.98   0.38   0.35   0.91 
  512   9.1380e-04   5.7112e-05   17.93   0.28   0.22   0.56 
  1024   6.6340e-04   8.2925e-05   24.70   0.12   0.08   0.34 
  2048   5.0620e-04   1.2655e-04   32.37   0.09   0.08   0.23 
  4096   3.1380e-04   1.5690e-04   52.21   0.50   0.54   0.72 
  8192   4.5280e-04   4.5280e-04   36.18   0.04   0.04   0.10 
Five Fastest
Protocols
Msg Size1st2nd3rd4th5th
  8   0   1   2   3   7 
  16   0   1   2   3   7 
  32   0   1   2   3   7 
  64   0   1   3   2   8 
  128   1   0   2   3   7 
  256   1   0   3   2   10 
  512   2   7   1   0   10 
  1024   1   10   7   8   2 
  2048   0   3   7   1   9 
  4096   0   3   8   2   9 
  8192   3   2   8   0   1 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
Msg Size1%5%25%
  8    2   2   4 
  16    2   2   4 
  32    1   2   4 
  64    1   1   2 
  128    2   2   4 
  256    1   2   4 
  512    1   1   6 
  1024    1   4   8 
  2048    2   2   11 
  4096    1   1   1 
  8192    2   9   11 


Protocol Sensitivity Summary for Unidirectional Swap of 8192 Bytes (10 iterations/no overlap)
Runtime Statistics
Msg Sizemin Secmin Sec/Msgmax MBytes/Sec(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  8   2.2722e-02   2.2190e-05   0.72   0.68   0.64   1.61 
  16   1.1449e-02   2.2361e-05   1.43   0.67   0.63   1.59 
  32   5.6704e-03   2.2150e-05   2.89   0.68   0.63   1.59 
  64   3.4350e-03   2.6836e-05   4.77   0.58   0.54   1.35 
  128   2.0113e-03   3.1427e-05   8.15   0.47   0.43   1.12 
  256   1.2520e-03   3.9126e-05   13.09   0.37   0.33   0.88 
  512   1.0499e-03   6.5616e-05   15.61   0.10   0.04   0.33 
  1024   6.7208e-04   8.4010e-05   24.38   0.08   0.04   0.25 
  2048   5.1642e-04   1.2910e-04   31.73   0.06   0.03   0.16 
  4096   4.6482e-04   2.3241e-04   35.25   0.03   0.01   0.10 
  8192   4.3652e-04   4.3652e-04   37.53   0.02   0.01   0.06 
Five Fastest
Protocols
Msg Size1st2nd3rd4th5th
  8   0   1   2   3   7 
  16   0   1   2   3   7 
  32   0   1   2   3   7 
  64   0   1   2   3   7 
  128   1   0   2   3   8 
  256   0   1   3   2   10 
  512   1   7   10   0   2 
  1024   0   1   7   10   9 
  2048   1   9   7   0   10 
  4096   7   9   1   2   0 
  8192   3   1   2   7   10 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
Msg Size1%5%25%
  8    1   2   4 
  16    2   2   4 
  32    1   2   4 
  64    1   2   4 
  128    2   2   4 
  256    2   2   4 
  512    2   6   9 
  1024    2   7   11 
  2048    1   8   11 
  4096    6   9   11 
  8192    4   10   11 


Protocol Sensitivity Summary for Unidirectional Swap of 8192 Bytes (1 iterations with overlap)
Runtime Statistics
Msg Sizemin Secmin Sec/Msgmax MBytes/Sec(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  8   2.2627e-02   2.2097e-05   0.72   0.42   0.18   1.60 
  16   1.2017e-02   2.3471e-05   1.36   0.36   0.13   1.45 
  32   5.6806e-03   2.2190e-05   2.88   0.43   0.20   1.56 
  64   3.5232e-03   2.7525e-05   4.65   0.35   0.15   1.32 
  128   2.0210e-03   3.1578e-05   8.11   0.30   0.14   1.12 
  256   1.2402e-03   3.8756e-05   13.21   0.26   0.14   0.87 
  512   1.1132e-03   6.9575e-05   14.72   0.05   0.03   0.25 
  1024   6.5620e-04   8.2025e-05   24.97   0.10   0.09   0.34 
  2048   5.3180e-04   1.3295e-04   30.81   0.04   0.03   0.12 
  4096   4.4360e-04   2.2180e-04   36.93   0.08   0.08   0.16 
  8192   3.9440e-04   3.9440e-04   41.54   0.13   0.16   0.20 
Five Fastest
Protocols
Msg Size1st2nd3rd4th5th
  8   0   1   2   4   3 
  16   1   0   4   2   3 
  32   0   1   4   2   3 
  64   0   1   4   2   3 
  128   0   1   2   3   4 
  256   0   1   2   4   5 
  512   1   7   2   8   10 
  1024   2   1   7   5   0 
  2048   4   0   8   1   7 
  4096   7   5   3   8   2 
  8192   5   6   4   2   8 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
Msg Size1%5%25%
  8    1   2   6 
  16    1   2   6 
  32    1   2   6 
  64    1   2   6 
  128    1   2   6 
  256    1   1   6 
  512    2   9   11 
  1024    1   1   10 
  2048    2   8   11 
  4096    1   2   11 
  8192    1   1   11 


Protocol Sensitivity Summary for Unidirectional Swap of 8192 Bytes (10 iterations with overlap)
Runtime Statistics
Msg Sizemin Secmin Sec/Msgmax MBytes/Sec(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  8   2.3746e-02   2.3189e-05   0.69   0.45   0.26   1.51 
  16   1.1484e-02   2.2430e-05   1.43   0.50   0.31   1.61 
  32   5.6709e-03   2.2152e-05   2.89   0.50   0.34   1.62 
  64   3.5286e-03   2.7567e-05   4.64   0.40   0.25   1.29 
  128   2.0207e-03   3.1574e-05   8.11   0.34   0.22   1.10 
  256   1.2375e-03   3.8672e-05   13.24   0.29   0.19   0.89 
  512   1.1019e-03   6.8867e-05   14.87   0.06   0.05   0.23 
  1024   6.9892e-04   8.7365e-05   23.44   0.04   0.04   0.20 
  2048   5.3280e-04   1.3320e-04   30.75   0.02   0.02   0.14 
  4096   4.5532e-04   2.2766e-04   35.98   0.03   0.03   0.08 
  8192   4.3390e-04   4.3390e-04   37.76   0.02   0.02   0.05 
Five Fastest
Protocols
Msg Size1st2nd3rd4th5th
  8   1   0   2   4   5 
  16   0   1   2   4   3 
  32   0   1   2   4   5 
  64   0   1   4   2   5 
  128   0   1   4   2   3 
  256   0   1   4   2   5 
  512   0   10   7   1   9 
  1024   10   1   7   0   4 
  2048   7   8   1   10   0 
  4096   0   3   5   7   8 
  8192   5   8   3   9   2 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
Msg Size1%5%25%
  8    2   2   4 
  16    1   2   2 
  32    1   2   2 
  64    1   2   6 
  128    1   2   6 
  256    1   2   6 
  512    3   4   11 
  1024    4   8   11 
  2048    4   10   11 
  4096    1   10   11 
  8192    3   11   11 

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