[Beowulf] Theoretical vs. Actual Performance

[Benson Muite]

Consider trying:
https://github.com/amd/blis
https://github.com/clMathLibraries/clBLAS

as well.

On 02/23/2018 12:48 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> Just rebuilt OpenBLAS 0.2.20 locally on the test system with GCC 6.1.0, 
> and I'm only getting 91 GFLOPS. I'm pretty sure OpenBLAS performance 
> should be close to ACML performance, if not better. I'll have to dig 
> into this later. For now, I'm going to continue my testing using the 
> ACML-based build and revisit the OpenBLAS performance later.
> 
> Prentice
> 
> On 02/22/2018 05:27 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>> So I just rebuilt HPL using the ACML 6.1.0 libraries with GCC 6.1.0, 
>> and I'm now getting 197 GFLOPS, so clearly there's a problem with my 
>> OpenBLAS build. I'm going to try building OpenBLAS without the dynamic 
>> arch support on the machine where I plan on running my tests, and see 
>> if that version of the library is any better.
>>
>> Prentice
>>
>> On 02/22/2018 09:37 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>>> Beowulfers,
>>>
>>> In your experience, how close does actual performance of your 
>>> processors match up to their theoretical performance? I'm 
>>> investigating a performances issue on some of my nodes. These are 
>>> older systems using AMD Opteron 6274 processors. I found literature 
>>> from AMD stating the theoretical performance of these processors is 
>>> 282 GFLOPS, and my LINPACK performance isn't coming close to that (I 
>>> get approximately ~33% of that).  The number I often hear mentioned 
>>> is actual performance should be ~85%. of theoretical performance is 
>>> that a realistic number your experience?
>>>
>>> I don't want this to be a discussion of what could be wrong at this 
>>> point, we will get to that in future posts, I assure you!
>>>
>>
> 
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