[petsc-users] Benchmarking different PETSc installations

[Jed Brown]

MatMult is limited by memory bandwidth. Always analyze the data movement in
your algorithm and compare the achieved "sustained memory bandwidth" to
STREAM. MatMult will get a high fraction (often >80%) as long as the matrix
ordering allows for reasonable cache reuse. Don't bother benchmarking with
a bad ordering except to make the point that it's a bad thing to do.


On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Run examples that are representative of a workload you are interested in.
> src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex5.c is a simple problem that is easy to
> understand. Use a 3D problem if that's what you're interested in. Run with
> -log_summary to get detailed information. Read the user's manual section on
> profiling for more details.
>
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> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Reuben D. Budiardja <reubendb at utk.edu>wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I would like to compare / benchmark several different PETSc installations
>> on my
>> system. The differences may be: different compilers or compiler flags,
>> different
>> libraries used by PETSc (e.g. BLAS&LAPACK, and any other packages used by
>> PETSc that I included in the build like SuperLU_Dist, Metis/ParMetis,
>> Hypre,
>> etc). Some of these libraries were provided by different vendors and some
>> we
>> built ourselves and I'd like to compare the performances as used by PETSc.
>>
>> So I am wondering if there's any kind of general PETSc benchmarking code
>> out
>> there that can do this. The more thorough parts of PETSc that gets
>> exersized
>> by the benchmark code the better, but even if only parts are tested it'd
>> be
>> useful too. Also I'm more interested on the benchmark code that can run
>> with
>> larger number of processors (e.g. order of hundreds and thousands). I've
>> tried
>> Google search but that hasn't yielded much of anything. So any help in
>> pointing me to the right direction is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you
>> RDB
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