performance issue

Jim Edwards jedwards at ucar.edu
Thu Aug 10 11:35:10 CDT 2023


We are having a lot of problems with darshan on our system - I'm working
with the darshan developers to resolve.

I am setting MPIIO hints - but I see that there are some hints specific to
pnetcdf - do you have any recommendations?

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 10:15 AM Wei-Keng Liao <wkliao at northwestern.edu>
wrote:

> Hi, Jim
>
> FYI. Darshan now can capture the I/O activities of PnetCDF,
> in addition to the already MPI-IO and POSIX-IO.
>
> Wei-keng
>
> On Aug 9, 2023, at 6:22 PM, Wei-Keng Liao <wkliao at northwestern.edu> wrote:
>
> In that case, I have the E3SM-IO benchmark that has a fairly complicate
> I/O
> partitioning pattern. It used the decomposition maps generated from PIO.
> https://github.com/Parallel-NetCDF/E3SM-IO
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/Parallel-NetCDF/E3SM-IO__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!UJAnknjDPQWY43szbAutlokjDrSHyBOcTlhEOChqYtThxnr812hxwvb8aSmHcEPiNOxNdOUHZi9Z2fyXbg2j6JH1HTo$>
>
> Wei-keng
>
> On Aug 9, 2023, at 6:17 PM, Jim Edwards <jedwards at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
> I think that your example case is too simple - it's doing a simple block
> decomposition.
> In order to get the performance difference I am observing I need to do a
> more complicated
> mapping.   I will work on a program that reproduces the problem without
> pio but it may take a
> while.
>
>
>
>

-- 
Jim Edwards

CESM Software Engineer
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, CO
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