Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-28 Thread yang yi
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Status: Answered => Solved yang yi confirmed that the question is solved: Bruno Chareyre (bruno-chareyre) Thank you very much. It is not a good news for me. OK. I will try. Thank youo -- You received thi

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-28 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Bruno Chareyre proposed the following answer: > the parallel programming, means there are 98 programming copies, and each copy for a cores. If my understanding right or not? More or less.[1] > If I increase the

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-28 Thread yang yi
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 yang yi posted a new comment: To Bruno Chareyre (bruno-chareyre): Thank you very much. I test -j1 and -j8 on my PC, yes. the speed is the same. And I test the command ~$ export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 and the res

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-28 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Bruno Chareyre proposed the following answer: > I understand you suggestion to get the optimal price of cores. But now for me, to get the fastest speed of the simulation is the aim. Yes. That's exactly my point.

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-27 Thread yang yi
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 yang yi posted a new comment: To Jan Stránský (honzik) and Bruno Chareyre (bruno-chareyre) : Thank you very much for you professional response. My the simulation process likes this: The two kinds of pa

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-27 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Bruno Chareyre proposed the following answer: > Start the script by the 'start' button on the Controller(), without "3D" show [...] did 10 iteration test [...] Because I get the time by hand, so there is errors

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-27 Thread Jan Stránský
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Jan Stránský proposed the following answer: > -j32 26.1s > -j48 24.51s > -j90 23.27s \ 23.72s > -j92 23.05s \ 23.76s \ 24.24s \ 24.09s > the -j92 or -j90 maybe the optimal jobs pretty much depending on the defin

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-26 Thread yang yi
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 yang yi posted a new comment: Janek Kozicki (cosurgi) , Jan Stránský (honzik) , Bruno Chareyre (bruno-chareyre) Thank you very much for answer my question. According to your suggestion, I checked the server

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-26 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Bruno Chareyre posted a new comment: > If the performance is just depend on a core, that is a very terrible message to me Not really. The message was: 1/ of course you don't automatically gain speedup by using

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-26 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Bruno Chareyre proposed the following answer: Ah: and it is absolutely critical that you keep GUI turned *off*. Else the comparisons are meaningless, you could be testing the GPU. You don't use GUI for long simu

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-26 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Bruno Chareyre proposed the following answer: > So I use 96 core. Maybe it is a bad idea. Or maybe it is ok but it doesn't give much more compared to, say, 48. OpenMP may have an optimum somewhere and maybe it

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-26 Thread Janek Kozicki
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Janek Kozicki posted a new comment: Sorry, that was written in a hurry. I mean that you can use these two commands to measure the computer performance using a standardized test. -- You received this question no

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-26 Thread Jan Stránský
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Jan Stránský posted a new comment: > But I need a faster speed for the simulation by parallel computation. So I use 96 core. Would another usage of the power be meaningful, e.g. running in parallel 12 simulation

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-26 Thread Janek Kozicki
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Janek Kozicki posted a new comment: run this command: yade --stdperformance -j8 or this command: yade --quickperformance -j8 -- You received this question notification because your team yade-users is an answ

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-26 Thread yang yi
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 yang yi posted a new comment: 1. Jan Stránský (honzik) Than you very much for you quickly response. I explain as the follows (1) The script The script must import torch. The code is use to simulated particle

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-26 Thread Janek Kozicki
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Janek Kozicki posted a new comment: If you have a recent yade version you can do yade --stdperformance -jN benchmark, with same N on both systems. If the speed is not stable, because some different programs are r

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-26 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Bruno Chareyre proposed the following answer: Hi, What you observe is actually expected: XEON 4, 3.2GH I7 3.6GH The I7 is faster. HPC rarely outperform personal computers in per-core performance. Arguably, you

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-26 Thread Son Pham Thai
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Son Pham Thai proposed the following answer: Hi, i have also used remote desktop PC to run yade. You should be very clear on which one you think that it is slow: (1). YADE simulation (running in the command win

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-26 Thread Jan Stránský
Question #690973 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Status: Open => Answered Jan Stránský proposed the following answer: Hello, TLTR: do not compare -j8 and -j96, compare -j8 for both systems. Difference of -j8 and -j96 is another problem not much related to

[Yade-users] [Question #690973]: running on a server is slower than on a PC

2020-05-26 Thread yang yi
New question #690973 on Yade: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/690973 Dear friend I meet a very strange question. Our Lab. take a new server and I install the yade on the server. But I find that running on the server is slower than on the PC. (1) The hardware and configura