Hi, I have sent the pull request with the optionlist for Stampede - KNL on 
Bitbucket simfactory repo. I have tested this with a couple of thornlists 
including the einsteintoolkit.th and GW150914.th. This is still in experimental 
stage and so would be great if someone could also test it.


Working on benchmarking the performance on Stampede KNL, I was able to do some 
test runs using the GW150914 simulation. However, I have been running into some 
issues with it.


1. I tried running QC0 simulation on both Stampede SandyBridge and KNL. While 
it runs fine on Stampede but it crashes on KNL with this error -

while executing schedule bin BoundaryConditions, routine 
RotatingSymmetry180::Rot180_ApplyBC in thorn RotatingSymmetry180, file 
/work/04082/tg833814/Cactus_ETK_dev/arrangements/CactusNumerical/RotatingSymmetry180/src/rotatingsymmetry180.c:460:
  -> TAT/Slab can only be used if there is a single local component per MPI 
process
TACC: MPI job exited with code: 134
I looked up at previous tickets and found the solution to increase the number 
of cores. But if the same simulation can be run on stampede on 64 cores, why 
does it require higher number of cores on KNL? Or is it some other issue?


2. I was able to run GW150914 on development queue (68 cores) and the speeds on 
Stampede were around 12.9M while that on KNL goes around 2.4M. To understand 
the reason for such small speeds, I tried running this on higher number of 
cores on  Stampede (128) and it runs at speed of around 20.9M (tested the run 
for 12 hours). However, on doing the same in normal queue in KNL, the 
simulation crashes after a couple of iterations on KNL with some segmentation 
fault error. Also, before crashing, the speed on KNL is around 4.2M. I have 
attached the error file of the simulation.

Could someone please look at this? Let me know if you need any other 
information.


Thanks

.............................

Bhavesh Khamesra

Graduate Student

Centre of Relativistic Astrophysics

Georgia Institute of Technology

Attachment: Benchmarking_ETK_GW150914_KNL.err
Description: Benchmarking_ETK_GW150914_KNL.err

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