Performance Issues on ccNuma-System

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Christoph Statz
<christoph.statz at ifn.et.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>
>   The sparse matrix is MUCH to big for the cache so has to stream through
> from memory,
> thus the huge number of "cache misses". This same performance issue occurs
> on
> all modern systems.
>
> Yes, of course. But on most modern systems i don't have the "problem" that
> the cache is held coherent which causes a bunch of extra cycles penalty.
> I don't have performance problems on our Clusters. It is just the "big"
> machine.

Write down the balance between cycles and memory bandwidth for these machines.
I am guessing the clusters have better balance since they tend to have
slower processors.

   Matt

> Christoph
>
> --
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> Technische Universität Dresden
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