<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Katy Ghantous <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:katyghantous@gmail.com" target="_blank">katyghantous@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi, <br></div>I am using DMDA to run in parallel TS to solves a set of N equations. I am using DMDAGetCorners in the RHSfunction with setting the stencil size at 2 to solve a set of coupled ODEs on 30 cores.<br>The machine has 32 cores (2 physical CPUs with 2x8 core each with speed of 3.4Ghz per core). <br></div>However, mpiexec with more than one core is showing no speedup.<br></div><div>Also at the configuring/testing stage for petsc on that machine, there was no speedup and it only reported one node. <br>Is there somehting wrong with how i configured petsc or is the approach inappropriate for the machine? <br>I am not sure what files (or sections of the code) you would need to be able to answer my question. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The kind of code you describe sounds memory bandwidth limited. More information is here:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html#computers">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html#computers</a></div><div><br></div><div>The STREAMS should give you an idea of the bandwidth, and running it on 2 procs vs 1 should</div><div>give you an idea of the speedup to expect, no matter how many cores you use.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thank you!<br></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener
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