[Beowulf] Thought that this might be of interest

[Richard Walsh]

Joe Landman wrote:
> We are working on a machine with 2 Opteron 2218s.  For laughs, I ran 
> streams on it.  Here are 1,2,3,4 processor data.
>
> 1 processor:
>
> Copy:       5713.9944      0.0591      0.0560      0.0600
> Scale:      5713.9822      0.0587      0.0560      0.0600
> Add:        5454.2389      0.0911      0.0880      0.0920
> Triad:      5454.1576      0.0916      0.0880      0.0920
>
     Mmmm ... these actually seem low considering the bus bandwidth is 
supposed to be 10.67 GB/sec
     in the socket F.  Using the 75% rule (1 silent read, 2 actual 
reads, and 1 write) from the triad shouldn't
     we get:

     10.67 * .75 =  ~8 GBs/sec
>
> 2 processors:
>
> Function     Rate (MB/s)  Avg time   Min time  Max time
> Copy:       5713.8788      0.0591      0.0560      0.0640
> Scale:      5713.9822      0.0596      0.0560      0.0640
> Add:        5713.9538      0.0858      0.0840      0.0880
> Triad:      5713.9538      0.0871      0.0840      0.0880
>
>
> 3 processors:
>
> Copy:       8888.4000      0.0391      0.0360      0.0400
> Scale:      8888.4147      0.0391      0.0360      0.0400
> Add:        8570.9733      0.0573      0.0560      0.0600
> Triad:      8570.9551      0.0587      0.0560      0.0600
>
>
> 4 processors:
>
> Copy:      11428.1834      0.0293      0.0280      0.0320
> Scale:     11428.1347      0.0298      0.0280      0.0320
> Add:       10908.5812      0.0449      0.0440      0.0480
> Triad:     10908.6107      0.0440      0.0440      0.0440
     Mmm ... similarly ... this seems to be only 50% of the full bandwidth
     of 2 socket F buses?  
> I did get one outlier at 4 CPUs.  Could be a timing glitch.
>
> 4 processors:
> Copy:      13332.7765      0.0302      0.0240      0.0360
> Scale:     13332.7765      0.0262      0.0240      0.0320
> Add:       13332.6220      0.0400      0.0360      0.0480
> Triad:     14999.0756      0.0391      0.0320      0.0480
     These are the numbers I would expect here  ... about 70% of  2 * 
10.67 GBs/sec.
     I think that your out-"liar" is actually giving you the correct 
numbers.
>
> This is a dual socket 1207 motherboard.  DDR2/533 ECC Registered 
> memory (will look back and check to be sure).
>
> Initial benchmarks (2.6 GHz clock) put it at about 17% faster than 
> Opteron 275 and Woodcrest 5150 (2.66 GHz) on a GAMESS test we use 
> (1h41m for Woodcrest and 275, and 1h26m for this unit).
     AMDs premium socket F is the 2220 SE which runs at 2.8 GHz.  The 
new AMD 4 digit naming convention
     is discussed in the presentation I posted earlier.

     rbw


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Richard B. Walsh

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