I believe that the time reported there is collective sum of times divided by the collective sum<br>of the stage times. If you look at the time imbalance, it is a staggering 9.7, which either means<br><br> 1) The partition is really crap (which we know isn't true)<br>
<br> 2) Some procs spend a lot of time waiting<br><br>We can get at this waiting time with the split VecDot() events.<br><br> Matt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Richard Tran Mills <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rmills@climate.ornl.gov">rmills@climate.ornl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">PETSc folks,<br>
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I was looking over the log summary data for the 2 billion degrees of freedom transport problem, and I'm a bit puzzled by some of the things I'm seeing. (I sent a tarball of this to the pflotran-dev list on April 30.) For instance, looking at the run at 32768 cores, I see that the total time for the "transport" phase is 3.2139e+02 seconds. But if I look at the VecDot line for the transport stage, I see<br>
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Event Count Time (sec) Flops --- Global --- --- Stage --- Total<br>
Max Ratio Max Ratio Max Ratio Mess Avg len Reduct %T %F %M %L %R %T %F %M %L %R Mflop/s<br>
VecDot 1306 1.0 4.1529e+01 9.7 1.76e+08 1.1 0.0e+00 0.0e+00 1.3e+03 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 24 128305<br>
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It's hard to read this the way my email client will wrap it, but it's saying that 3% of the time in the stage was spent on VecDot()s. But the max time in VecDot is 4.1529e+01, close to thirteen percent. Does the "%T" for the stage mean something other than what I think it does?<br>
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