PSTSWM T3E-900 Communication Protocol Performance

Performance Studies using

PSTSWM


SGI/Cray Research T3E-900 Protocol Performance

(transpose LT experiment II-A / O(P) sendrecv transpose algorithm)

Date/Person: May 8, 1998 / P. Worley
Platform: T3E-900 at National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (mcurie.nersc.gov):
   532 450-MHz DEC Alpha EV5 RISC processors
Environment: UNICOS/mk 2.0.2.28
mpt 1.2.0.2
Cray CF90 Version 3.0.2.1
Code Version: 6.3
Compilation Options: -dp -Oscalar3 -Wl,-Dstreams=on
Math Library: libsci
Communication Library: MPI
Parallel Algorithm: srtrans
(assuming transpose FFT)
Number of Timesteps: 12
Results:

1x16 Processors / Problem T21L2
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  4.0561e-02   0.40   0.29   1.14 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  a6   e0   a0 
      Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  1   1   11 

1x32 Processors / Problem T42L1
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  6.9462e-02   0.44   0.39   1.21 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  e0   a6   a0 
      Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  2   3   13 

1x8 Processors / Problem T42L2
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  2.0519e-01   0.09   0.09   0.19 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  e0   e1   c1 
      Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  2   9   31 

1x16 Processors / Problem T85L1
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  2.6686e-01   0.11   0.12   0.25 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  e0   e1   e2 
      Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  1   6   31 

1x32 Processors / Problem T85L2
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  3.0094e-01   0.15   0.15   0.42 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  e0   a6   e1 
      Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  2   5   25 

1x8 Processors / Problem T85L4
Runtime Statistics
min(mean-min)/min(median-min)/min(max-min)/min
  2.4779e+00   0.02   0.02   0.05 
Three Fastest
Protocols
1st2nd3rd
  c1   c2   a0 
      Number of Proctocols With
Runtimes Within X% of Min
1%5%25%
  7   31   31 


Patrick H. Worley / ( worleyph@ornl.gov)
Last Modified Monday, 15-Jul-2002 10:28:05 EDT.