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Can you please make your model and input files available for download so
I can replicate the results. What is the OS and machine spec you're
using? Are the model files on local disk or on a network or distributed
FS? Are there any other processes on the server that could affect the
timing results?
On 16/03/2017 08:07, Ivan Zapreev wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have a question and perhaps want to draw your attention to the
> following fact. The Moses2 webpage
> http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Site.Moses2 claims that Moses2 has
> better multi-threading support than Moses and scales better on
> multi-core machines. As can be extrapolated from the performance
> picture on that webpage the performance of Moses and Moses2 on a
> single core are therefore almost the same.
>
> We develop our own free and open source distributed SMT infrastructure
> and our empirical comparison of the translation tools shows that
> things are not quite like that. Actually Moses2 is about 2 times
> faster than Moses on a single thread and with adding more threads on a
> multi-core machine this speed difference is only reducing ... We
> actually observe that Moses2 scales worse in the number of threads
> than Moses and that the performance benefits of Moses2 seem to be
> solely due to faster single sentence decoding. So I am curious why do
> we have so much different results from the official ones? Could some
> one please give me a hint on that? Is the information on the Moses2
> webpage outdated?
>
> The results of our empirical evaluation can be found by the following
> link:
>
> https://github.com/ivan-zapreev/Basic-Translation-Infrastructure#translation-server-evaluation
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ivan
>
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Hieu Hoang
http://moses-smt.org/
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