[FLASH-USERS] Request for reference on performance and scalability

[Ernesto Zurbriggen]

Thank a lot for your helpful answers!

El jue., 11 oct. 2018 a las 14:27, Nathan Goldbaum (<nathan12343 at gmail.com>)
escribió:

> If this is for an application for compute time, I'd strongly suggest
> running the test on the hardware you intend to run on and using the problem
> you would like to run in production (to as much of an extent that is
> possible). Most supercomputing centers have a way to request discretionary
> allocations for these sorts of scaling studies.
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:24 PM Carlo Graziani <carlo at oddjob.uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> There's
>>
>> @inproceedings{cordery2013analysis,
>>     title={Analysis of Cray XC30 performance using Trinity-NERSC-8
>> benchmarks and comparison with Cray XE6 and IBM BG/Q},
>>     author={Cordery, Matthew J and Austin, Brian and Wassermann, HJ and
>> Daley, Christopher S and Wright, Nicholas J and Hammond, Simon D and
>> Doerfler, Douglas},
>>     booktitle={International Workshop on Performance Modeling,
>> Benchmarking
>> and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems},
>>     pages={52--72},
>>     year={2013},
>>     organization={Springer}
>> }
>>
>> which is BiBTeX for
>> https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~sdh/pmbs13papers/pmbs0900.pdf.
>>
>> There's also the following very detailed presentation on getting Flash
>> ready for IBM BG/Q from 2013:
>>
>> https://www.alcf.anl.gov/files/cdaley_miracon_talk_0.pdf
>>
>> Carlo
>>
>> On 10/11/18 10:03 AM, Marissa Adams wrote:
>> > Hi Ernesto,
>> >
>> > I don't know of any specific publications off the bat that are straight
>> up
>> > on the topic of MPI scalability/performance using FLASH. Seems most
>> people
>> > may discuss these things strategically in a science publication so that
>> > work gets cited too -- so you may want to look around at some of the
>> > earlier publications in the 2000s
>> > (http://flash.uchicago.edu/site/publications/flash_pubs.shtml).
>> >
>> > Albeit section 8 of the Fryxell et al. (2000) paper may be what you're
>> > looking for, but I am not sure if it necessarily pertains to current
>> > versions of the code/their performance. Hopefully, Klaus or someone
>> else at
>> > the Center, or someone else on the user list, knows more -- but this is
>> > what I know of.
>> >
>> > http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/317361
>> >
>> > Best of luck,
>> > Marissa
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Marissa Adams
>> > PhD Student
>> > Website: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~madams
>> > <http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~madams/>
>> > University of Rochester
>> > Department of Physics & Astronomy
>> > 371 Bausch & Lomb Hall
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 10:53 AM Ernesto Zurbriggen <
>> ezurbriggen at unc.edu.ar
>> > <mailto:ezurbriggen at unc.edu.ar>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Hi all!
>> >     Does anybody know if there is a (preferently refereed) reference
>> that
>> >     measures the performance and MPI scalability of the Flash code in
>> PCs
>> >     and clusters?
>> >     I have been looking for it but I got nothing. The reference is
>> needed
>> >     for a project.
>> >
>> >     Thank you!
>> >
>> >     --
>> >     /Dr. Ernesto Zurbriggen/
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>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Carlo Graziani                                 (630) 252-1543 (Voice)
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>>                               | more he loves the flag. -- Kin Hubbard
>>
>>
>>

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