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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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