PSTSWM SP3-200 Communication Protocol Performance

Performance Studies using

PSTSWM

IBM SP3-200 Protocol Performance

(transpose LT experiment II-A2 / O(P) swap transpose algorithm)

Date/Person: June 6, 1999 / P. Worley
Platform: IBM SP3 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (morgan.ccs.ornl.gov):
     62 2-way Winterhawk I SMP nodes (200 MHz POWER3 with 4MB L2 cache, equivalent to RS/6000 Model 260)
Environment: AIX 4.3.2;   PSSP 3.1
Code Version: 6.5
Compilation Options: mpxlf -O3 -qarch=auto -qtune=auto -qcache=auto
Link Options: -bmaxdata:0x70000000
Math Library: ESSL
Communication Library: MPI over the switch using user space for internode communication
MPI using IP for intranode communication
Parallel Algorithm: swtrans
(assuming transpose FFT)
Number of Timesteps: 12
Results:

1x16 Processors / Problem T21L2
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  2.1110e-02   1.21   1.06   2.19 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  e2   e3   e1 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  1   3   6 

1x32 Processors / Problem T42L1
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  2.8728e-02   1.81   1.73   3.30 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  e2   e0   e1 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  1   1   4 

1x8 Processors / Problem T42L2
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  1.0802e-01   0.45   0.46   0.94 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  e4   e5   e3 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  2   3   7 

1x16 Processors / Problem T85L1
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  1.5229e-01   0.38   0.37   0.65 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  e3   e4   e5 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  1   3   7 

1x32 Processors / Problem T85L2
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  1.6465e-01   0.67   0.66   1.13 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  e3   e4   e5 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  1   3   4 

1x8 Processors / Problem T85L4
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  1.2638e+00   0.13   0.09   0.92 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  e5   e4   a5 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  1   7   29 

Patrick H. Worley / ( worleyph@ornl.gov)
Last Modified Monday, 15-Jul-2002 10:15:59 EDT.