PSTSWM SP2-66 Algorithm Comparison

Performance Studies using

PSTSWM

IBM SP2-66 Algorithm Comparison

(transpose LT experiment I-A1 )

Date/Person: July 29, 1996 / P. Worley
Platform: IBM SP2 at NASA Ames Research Center (babbage.nas.nasa.gov):
   160 RS6000/590 nodes ("wide", 66.7 MHz POWER2 RISC chip set)
Environment: AIX 4.1.3.3;   POE 2.1.0.8
Code Version: 6.1
Compilation Options: mpxlf -O3 -qarch=pwr2
Math Library: ESSL
Communication Library: MPI
MPL
Number of Timesteps: 12
Results:

Transpose LT (1) (mpi)
Algorithm Comparison
  T10L16    T21L8     T21L16    T42L16 
  P=16     P=8     P=16     P=8  
  optimal algorithm   swtrans  swtrans  swtrans  swtrans 
  (generic-min)/min     0.223    0.267    0.171    0.010 

Transpose LT (1) (mpl)
Algorithm Comparison
  T10L16    T21L16 
  P=16     P=16  
  optimal algorithm   swtrans  srtrans 
  (generic-min)/min     0.321    0.712 

Transpose LT (1) (combined)
Communication Library Comparisons
  T10L16    T21L16 
  P=16     P=16  
  optimal library   mpi  mpi 
  (mpi-min)/min     0.000    0.000 

Patrick H. Worley / ( worleyph@ornl.gov)
Last Modified Monday, 15-Jul-2002 10:14:06 EDT.