[Swift-user] Re: [falkon-user] 1) disable retry mechanism and 2) continue on failure?

[Ben Clifford]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Ioan Raicu wrote:

> 	1 Node Perf 	Falkon 	Swift+Falkon 	Swift+Falkon (patched)
> Min 	63.618 	53.782 	169.139 	58.538
> Average 	64.76 	65.47253 	309.1945 	80.21246
> Median 	64.74072 	64.774 	313.5535 	76.5245
> Max 	65.863 	94.447 	605.654 	115.237
> Standard Deviation 	0.488984 	3.863944 	52.13821
> 10.95652
> Efficiency 	100% 	99% 	21% 	81%
> 
> 
> The first column shows the per task statistic when running on 1 node (4 CPUs)
> through Falkon.  The second column are the statistics for running the
> application at large scale, on 2048 CPUs.  The 3rd column is running
> Swift+Falkon (both from SVN) on 256 CPUs.  The 4th column is Swift+Falkon, but
> Swift has the 3 patches applied.  Essentially, the per task execution time was
> reduced from 309 seconds to 80 seconds, where the ideal would have been 64
> seconds.  It brought the efficiency from 21% to 81% for this particular
> workload.  This looks fantastic! 

The standard deviation is quite large for the patched-swift values. I'd be 
interested to see the -info files for all of these runs so I can see what 
they are doing. Can you put them somewhere for me?

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