On 11/06/2012 05:24 PM, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311) wrote:
> All -
>
> I'm refactoring the SystemIO code to help address the RB IO bottleneck.  As 
> of r6316, serialized vectors are written as
>
> for node…
>    for var…
>      for comp…
>
>
> instead of the previous implementation
>
> for var…
>    for node…
>       for comp…
>
> This allows the parallel communication to occur NVAR times less, passing 
> instead larger buffers more efficiently.  I also removed the collective 
> communication from the serialized read member, so its performance is 
> increased 5-10x depending on a lot of factors.
>
> I tested this on all my stuff and am pretty confident with it, but let me 
> know if anything breaks!  Old restart files should be read properly, but the 
> library only writes the new flavor.
>
> Dave, my ultimate fix for you will be extending this to write
>
> for node…
>    for vec…
>      for var…
>        for comp…
>
> or some permutation thereof, which will necessitate writing all the reduced 
> basis vectors to a single file, in order to get maximum performance.  I 
> assume that's OK with you?

This sounds perfect to me, thanks!

Dave



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