Yifang,

Just out of curiosity, what kind of machine do you have that has 160
cores? Is it a single server or a mini cluster?

Jim

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Tan, Yifang <yifang....@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:
> Hello Sebastien!
>
> I have a question about the speed difference of running Ray on two Linux 
> distributions:
> Redhat: Linux box1 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 22 03:15:09 UTC 2013 
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> CPU core#: 160
> RAM:  1TB (yes, 1TB)
>
> Debian: Linux box2 3.10-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.10.5-1 (2013-08-07) x86_64 
> GNU/Linux
> CPU core#: 24
> RAM: 128GB
>
> The reason of my enquiry is that my assembly on Redhat box is way much slower 
> than in Debian. Of course I used exactly the same parameters of the assembly.
> Here is a table on total assembly time (seconds) with different kmers from 
> our two boxes:
> kmer    Debian      Redhat
> 11        115          460
> 15        115          464
> 21        126          529
> 31        117          497
>
> I was thinking to use more CPU cores with more RAM would speed up the 
> assembly, which did not work as I thought.
> Sometime the difference was huge and the assembly in my Redhat was extremely 
> slow. I was wondering what may cause this difference from the operating 
> system part, so that I could ask the my sysadmin to adjust the configuration, 
> or just avoid RedHat Linux for my assembly.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Yifang
>
>
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