<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Resorting to your expertise in software performance:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Subject: Looking for a crude assessment of CPU speed or DRAM
speed bottlenecks in shared memory multi-core PCs</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On a typical PC with one Xeon CPU (8 cores), a serial code runs a case in say 10 hours of
Wall time, and on the same computer 4 instances of the same code running simultaneously
(the same case) take essentially the same Wall time, 10 hrs or a marginal
increase such as 10hrs 30 mins. There is
no I/O, lots of free physical RAM, each core running an instance shows ~ 100%
utilization.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Q1: What could we conclude about this hardware-software-case
combination in terms of being CPU bound, memory bandwidth bound, etc ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Q2: Can we say that this hardware-software-case combination is
not DRAM bound, and that it “may be amenable” to a good speedup running
multiple threads in the same shared memory environment ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I did look into the shared memory benchmark <a href="http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream</a> but I could not draw any conclusions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">If this is a trivial question, please point me to a good resource
to learn.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thanks!</p></div>