Hi Scot,

thanks for trying this out.

Scot Breitenfeld <[email protected]> writes:
> Can you be more specific about the hardware and the software you are
> using for each case (especially for the “very bad” case)? 
> What architecture?
> Parallel file system type?
> What compiler/mpi type and version?
> What version of HDF?


If we focus on the "very bad" case:

Hardware:
+ Each node has 2x E5–2670 SandyBridge-EP chips, for a total of 16 cores
  per node
+ Network is Infiniband
+ Parallel file system: GPFS

As per the software versions:
+ Intel compilers, version: 13.0.1 20121010
+ Intel(R) MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 4.1 Update 1 Build 20130507
+ HDF version: HDF5 1.8.10


The "good" case:

Hardware:
+ Each node has 2x E5-2680 SandaBridge chips, for a total of 16 cores
  per node
+ Network is Infiniband 
+ Parallel file system: Lustre

Software:
+ Intel compilers, version 14.0.3 20140422
+ BullXMPI, which AFAIK is a fork of Open MPI, version. 1.2.7.2
+ HDF version: HDF5 1.8.9


> These are the timings for your program on GPFS using hdf5 trunk, xlf
> compiler, mpich 3.1.1. I don’t see a large difference in writing times
> between datasets.

These timings look really good, but how did you run the 1024 cores one?
I mean, the code in Pastebin assumes that it will be run with 64 cores
(nblocks = 4), so I guess for the 8 cores run you set that to (nblocks =
2). And for 1024 cores? 

Again, thanks a lot for your help. Any pointer appreciated,
Ángel de Vicente

>
> 8 cores:
>
>  Timing report:
>  Timer                                   Number Iterations Mean real time  
> Mean CPU time        Minimum        Maximum
>  ----------------------------------------                             (s)     
>        (s)            (s)            (s)
>  WRITINGPMLX                                             1     0.2100E+00     
> 0.2000E+00     0.2100E+00     0.2100E+00
>  WRITINGPMLY                                             1     0.1600E+00     
> 0.1600E+00     0.1600E+00     0.1600E+00
>  WRITINGPMLZ                                             1     0.1600E+00     
> 0.1600E+00     0.1600E+00     0.1600E+00
>
>  Timer                                   Number Iterations Mean real time  
> Mean CPU time        Minimum        Maximum
>  ----------------------------------------                             (s)     
>        (s)            (s)            (s)
>  WRITINGPMLX                                             1     0.4500E+00     
> 0.4500E+00     0.4500E+00     0.4500E+00
>  WRITINGPMLY                                             1     0.4000E+00     
> 0.4000E+00     0.4000E+00     0.4000E+00
>  WRITINGPMLZ                                             1     0.4400E+00     
> 0.4500E+00     0.4400E+00     0.4400E+00
>
>  Timer                                   Number Iterations Mean real time  
> Mean CPU time        Minimum        Maximum
>  ----------------------------------------                             (s)     
>        (s)            (s)            (s)
>  WRITINGPMLX                                             1     0.1470E+01     
> 0.1460E+01     0.1470E+01     0.1470E+01
>  WRITINGPMLY                                             1     0.1580E+01     
> 0.1580E+01     0.1580E+01     0.1580E+01
>  WRITINGPMLZ                                             1     0.1730E+01     
> 0.1730E+01     0.1730E+01     0.1730E+01
>
>
> 1024 cores:
>
>  Timer                                   Number Iterations Mean real time  
> Mean CPU time        Minimum        Maximum
>  ----------------------------------------                             (s)     
>        (s)            (s)            (s)
>  WRITINGPMLX                                             1     0.5118E+02     
> 0.5118E+02     0.5118E+02     0.5118E+02
>  WRITINGPMLY                                             1     0.5228E+02     
> 0.5228E+02     0.5228E+02     0.5228E+02
>  WRITINGPMLZ                                             1     0.5296E+02     
> 0.5296E+02     0.5296E+02     0.5296E+02
>
>
>  Timer                                   Number Iterations Mean real time  
> Mean CPU time        Minimum        Maximum
>  ----------------------------------------                             (s)     
>        (s)            (s)            (s)
>  WRITINGPMLX                                             1     0.5185E+02     
> 0.5185E+02     0.5185E+02     0.5185E+02
>  WRITINGPMLY                                             1     0.5543E+02     
> 0.5543E+02     0.5543E+02     0.5543E+02
>  WRITINGPMLZ                                             1     0.5675E+02     
> 0.5675E+02     0.5675E+02     0.5675E+02
>
>   Timer                                   Number Iterations Mean real time  
> Mean CPU time        Minimum        Maximum
>  ----------------------------------------                             (s)     
>        (s)            (s)            (s)
>  WRITINGPMLX                                             1     0.5035E+02     
> 0.5035E+02     0.5035E+02     0.5035E+02
>  WRITINGPMLY                                             1     0.5739E+02     
> 0.5739E+02     0.5739E+02     0.5739E+02
>  WRITINGPMLZ                                             1     0.5174E+02     
> 0.5175E+02     0.5174E+02     0.5174E+02
>
>
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