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

Zhao Zhang zhaozhang at uchicago.edu
Thu Apr 3 04:51:04 CDT 2008


Hi, Ben

Check this
login.ci.uchicago.edu:/home/zzhang/info.tar

zhao

Ben Clifford wrote:
> 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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