Re: [Yade-users] [Question #681609]: hyper-threading and yade

2019-06-27 Thread Bettina Suhr
Question #681609 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/681609 Status: Answered => Solved Bettina Suhr confirmed that the question is solved: Dear Robert, Jerome and Bruno, Thank you very much for your answers. With this information at hand, we will think about a

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #681609]: hyper-threading and yade

2019-06-26 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #681609 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/681609 Bruno Chareyre proposed the following answer: If you have N physical cores and 2xN threads, then most likely the performance will decrease or stagnate if you try to use yade with more than N threads. In other

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #681609]: hyper-threading and yade

2019-06-26 Thread Robert Caulk
Question #681609 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/681609 Robert Caulk posted a new comment: It's worth pointing out that those results are all based on two discrete CPUs on a single motherboard working on the same problem. I am not sure if that is closer to

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #681609]: hyper-threading and yade

2019-06-26 Thread Jérôme Duriez
Question #681609 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/681609 Jérôme Duriez posted a new comment: In terms of historical feedback, we had a presentation by A. Eulitz about that during the 1st YADE workshop (2014 !). See p. 462 onwards of

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #681609]: hyper-threading and yade

2019-06-26 Thread Robert Caulk
Question #681609 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/681609 Status: Open => Answered Robert Caulk proposed the following answer: Hyperthreading *generally* does not improve or hinder performance on single Linux workstations [1]. Some authors tested the effect of

[Yade-users] [Question #681609]: hyper-threading and yade

2019-06-26 Thread Bettina Suhr
New question #681609 on Yade: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/681609 Dear all, we just bought a new computer for DEM simulations. After a first performance test with yade, I saw that the IT turned on hyper-threading. Is there a general advice to use or not to use hyper-threading