Sounds amazing! I'd like to see that code although I can not promise you to much response during my holiday, which is starting tomorrow.
Have you compared matrix vector product with vector products using uBlas or PETSc ? Kent > Hello! > > In light of the long and interesting discussion we had a while ago about > assembler performance I decided to try to squeeze more out of the uBlas > backend. This was not very successful. > > However, I've been following the development of MTL4 > (http://www.osl.iu.edu/research/mtl/mtl4/) with a keen eye on the > interesting insertion scheme they provide. I implemented a backend -- > without sparsity pattern computation -- for the dolfin assembler and here > are some first benchmarks results: > > Incomp Navier Stokes on 50x50x50 unit cube > > MTL -------------------------------------------------------- > assembly time: 8.510000 > reassembly time: 6.750000 > vecor assembly time: 6.070000 > > memory: 230 mb > > UBLAS ------------------------------------------------------ > assembly time: 23.030000 > reassembly time: 12.140000 > vector assembly time: 6.030000 > > memory: 642 mb > > Poisson on 2000x2000 unit square > > MTL -------------------------------------------------------- > assembly time: 9.520000 > reassembly time: 6.650000 > assembly time: 4.730000 > vector linear solve: 0.000000 > > memory: 452 mb > > UBLAS ------------------------------------------------------ > assembly time: 15.400000 > reassembly time: 7.520000 > vector assembly time: 5.020000 > > memory: 1169 mb > > Conclusions? MTL is more than twice as fast and allocates less than half > the memory (since there is no sparsity pattern computation) across a set > of forms I've tested. > > The code is not perfectly done yet, but I'd still be happy to share it > with whoever wants to mess around with it. > > Cheers! > > /Dag > > _______________________________________________ > DOLFIN-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev > _______________________________________________ DOLFIN-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev
