[petsc-users] Poor speed up for KSP example 45

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 2:11 PM Amin Sadeghi <aminthefresh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Matt and Mark for the explanation. That makes sense. Please
> correct me if I'm wrong, I think instead of asking for the whole node with
> 32 cores, if I ask for more nodes, say 4 or 8, but each with 8 cores, then
> I should see much better speedups. Is that correct?
>

Yes, exactly

  Matt


> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 2:04 PM Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
>
>> I would guess that you are saturating the memory bandwidth. After
>> you make PETSc (make all) it will suggest that you test it (make test) and
>> suggest that you run streams (make streams).
>>
>> I see Matt answered but let me add that when you make streams you will
>> seed the memory rate for 1,2,3, ... NP processes. If your machine is decent
>> you should see very good speed up at the beginning and then it will start
>> to saturate. You are seeing about 50% of perfect speedup at 16 process. I
>> would expect that you will see something similar with streams. Without
>> knowing your machine, your results look typical.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 1:05 PM Amin Sadeghi <aminthefresh at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I ran KSP example 45 on a single node with 32 cores and 125GB memory
>>> using 1, 16 and 32 MPI processes. Here's a comparison of the time spent
>>> during KSP.solve:
>>>
>>> - 1 MPI process: ~98 sec, speedup: 1X
>>> - 16 MPI processes: ~12 sec, speedup: ~8X
>>> - 32 MPI processes: ~11 sec, speedup: ~9X
>>>
>>> Since the problem size is large enough (8M unknowns), I expected a
>>> speedup much closer to 32X, rather than 9X. Is this expected? If yes, how
>>> can it be improved?
>>>
>>> I've attached three log files for more details.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Amin
>>>
>>

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