PSTSWM T3D Communication Protocol Performance

Performance Studies using

PSTSWM


SGI/Cray Research T3D Protocol Performance

(distributed LT experiment A / exchange sum algorithm)

Date/Person: October 28, 1994 / P. Worley
Platform: T3D at Cray Research in Eagen, MN (rain):
   128 150-MHz DEC Alpha EV4 RISC processors
Environment: IS-9.0
Cray CF90 Version 0.1.2.3
Code Version: 6.1
Compilation Options: /mpp/bin/f90 -dp -Oscalar3
Math Library: none
Communication Library: SHMEM
Parallel Algorithm: exchsum
Number of Timesteps: 12
Results:

1x16 Processors / Problem T21L2
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  1.3920e-01   0.14   0.06   0.43 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  a2   b6   b2 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  1   4   8 

1x32 Processors / Problem T42L1
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  2.4692e-01   0.16   0.05   0.52 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  a2   c2   b6 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  1   6   8 

1x8 Processors / Problem T42L2
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  9.4677e-01   0.05   0.01   0.16 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  c2   a2   d6 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  4   6   10 

1x16 Processors / Problem T85L1
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  1.6145e+00   0.10   0.06   0.30 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  a2   b2   b6 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  1   4   9 

1x32 Processors / Problem T85L2
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  2.2228e+00   0.12   0.02   0.41 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  a2   b6   b2 
       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
  1.0623e+01   0.05   0.03   0.14 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  a2   b6   b2 
       Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  3   6   10 


Patrick H. Worley / ( worleyph@ornl.gov)
Last Modified Monday, 15-Jul-2002 10:23:56 EDT.