[dropping rcmes-dev@ since it's an internal JPL list; and Kyo; and
CC to Alex since you are both on the list]

Thanks for sending this Alex and for bringing this conversation
on list.

Cheers,
Chris

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
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Email: [email protected]
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-----Original Message-----
From: <Goodman>, "Alexander   (398J-Affiliate)"
<[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, June 6, 2013 10:33 PM
To: "Lee, Kyo (3246-Affiliate)" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: jpluser <[email protected]>, rcmes-dev
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Potential way to improve performance in metrics

>Hi Kyo,
>
>
>Thanks for pointing out the bug, here is the benchmark script again with
>the shape order fixed.
>
>
>The reason that I chose not to use reshape was because that it creates a
>deep copy of the input array, which is very expensive and actually makes
>the revised function perform worse than the original when the input array
>is large. Although the
> current way of doing it is a bit awkward, it is also much more efficient
>since it does not require a copy of the original array to be constructed.
>
>
>Also, I have opened up a JIRA issue
>
>
>Thanks,
>Alex
>
>
>
>On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Lee, Kyo (3246-Affiliate)
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Alex,
>
>What a great job!
>
>I found a bug.
>It should be
>
>nMonth, nGrdY, nGrdX = data1.shape
>
>I would also suggest
>
>stds = dataset1.reshape([nMonth/12,12,nGrdY,nGrdX]).std(axis=0, ddof=1)
>
>Then we do not have to reset the shape of dataset1.
>
>Kyo
>
>
>
>On Jun 6, 2013, at 9:55 PM, "Mattmann, Chris A (398J)"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Alex this is great!
>>
>> Please bring this conversation onto:
>>
>> [email protected]
>>
>> Please file a review here:
>>
>> http://reviews.apache.org/
>>
>> For your patch too and we can discuss on the
>> new thread you start up on [email protected].
>> Further feel free to file JIRA issues at:
>>
>> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLIMATE
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
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>> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
>> Senior Computer Scientist
>> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
>> Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
>> Email: [email protected]
>> WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
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>> Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
>> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: <Goodman>, "Alexander   (398J-Affiliate)" <[email protected]>
>> Date: Thursday, June 6, 2013 9:51 PM
>> To: rcmes-dev <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Potential way to improve performance in metrics
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> As I mentioned in our meeting this morning, while Kim and Kyo were
>>> cleaning up metrics.py, I noticed that some of the functions had room
>>>for
>>> performance improvements. Specifically, this pertains to the functions
>>> which were doing calculations by month,
>>> as they currently use loops for each month. These loops can be
>>> eliminated with some shape manipulation and nearly cut the running time
>>> in half in some cases. I have attached a python script that shows what
>>> the changes would look like for one of the functions
>>> as well as provide some benchmarks comparing the running times for the
>>> old and new methodology for multiple cases. After Kyo's latest changes
>>> are committed, I would like to revise the other functions in metrics.py
>>> in this manner. Let me know your thoughts.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>> --
>>> Alex Goodman
>>>
>>>
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