PSTSWM SP3-375 Communication Protocol Performance

Performance Studies using

PSTSWM

IBM SP3-375 Winterhawk II Protocol Performance

(distributed LT experiment C / ring sum algorithm)

Date/Person: December 12, 1999 / P. Worley
Platform: IBM SP3 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (bobcat.ccs.ornl.gov):
     62 4-way Winterhawk II SMP nodes (375 MHz POWER3 with 8MB L2 cache)
Environment: AIX 4.3.3;   PSSP 3.1.1
Code Version: 6.6.4
Compilation Options: mpxlf -O3 -qarch=auto -qtune=auto -qcache=auto
Link Options: -bmaxdata:0x70000000
Environment Variables: export MP_SHARED_MEMORY="yes"
Math Library: ESSL
Communication Library: MPI over the switch using user space for internode communication
MPI using shared memory for intranode communication
Parallel Algorithm: ringsum
Number of Timesteps: 12
Results:

4x16 Processors (Column Major Ordering) / Problem T42L2
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  1.1598e-01   0.27   0.28   0.58 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  c4   c5   d4 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  1   2   10 

2x32 Processors (Column Major Ordering) / Problem T42L2
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  8.4352e-02   0.77   0.82   1.65 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  c4   c5   d4 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  1   2   2 

8x8 Processors (Column Major Ordering) / Problem T42L16
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  4.4187e-01   0.05   0.05   0.10 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  c5   c4   c3 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  2   15   25 

4x16 Processors (Column Major Ordering) / Problem T85L4
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  3.8197e-01   0.11   0.11   0.23 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  c4   c5   d4 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  2   5   25 

2x32 Processors (Column Major Ordering) / Problem T85L4
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  3.3506e-01   0.28   0.27   0.57 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  c4   c5   d4 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  2   2   8 

8x8 Processors (Column Major Ordering) / Problem T85L32
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  2.8991e+00   0.02   0.01   0.11 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  c3   a1   a4 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  9   24   25 

Patrick H. Worley / ( worleyph@ornl.gov)
Last Modified Monday, 15-Jul-2002 10:19:29 EDT.