Functionality Testing
It works!
- Some glitches, but most easily corrected (so far)
- Good single node stability
Performance is evolving.
- AIX 5.1D and associated changes (e.g., L3 cache settings) represent a significant change in performance
- More to come: large page sizes, improved MPI performance, ...
- “Curse of early evaluation studies”
- measuring lower bounds
- emphasis on collecting empirical data for a variety of codes
- little analysis of observed performance (yet)