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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Knepley wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:logg@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Johan and I have set up a benchmark for parallel speedup in
>
>      bench/fem/speedup
>
>     Here are some preliminary results:
>
>      Speedup  |  Assemble  Assemble + solve
>      --------------------------------------
>      1        |         1                 1
>      2        |    1.4351            4.0785
>      4        |    2.3763            6.9076
>      8        |    3.7458            9.4648
>      16       |    6.3143            19.369
>      32       |    7.6207            33.699
>
>
> These numbers are very very strange for a number of reasons:
>
> 1) Assemble should scale almost perfectly. Something is wrong here.
>
> 2) Solve should scale like a matvec, which should not be this good,
>     especially on a cluster with a slow network. I would expect 85% or so.

Isn't this only for a Krylov solver? The demo uses MUMPS.

Garth


> 3) If any of these are dual core, then it really does not make sense since
>     it should be bandwidth limited.
>
>   Matt
>  
>
>     These numbers look a bit strange, especially the superlinear speedup
>     for assemble + solve. There might be a bug somewhere in the benchmark
>     code.
>
>     Anyway, we have some preliminary results that at least show some kind
>     of speedup.
>
>     It would be interesting to hear some comments on what kind of numbers
>     we should expect to get from Matt and others.
>
>     The benchmark is for assembling and solving Poisson on a 64 x 64 x 64
>     mesh using PETSc/MUMPS. Partitioning time is not included in the
>     numbers.
>
>     --
>     Anders
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