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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 01/10/2012 14:16, Layla Martin-Samos
      ha scritto:<br>
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cite="mid:CAGCSmJQBtXCTirqfrQMUsRQoKR81h8++a5iQbPmHvEr73UHtSw@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">Ciao Ivan, I explain myself very badly, first look at
      this:<br>
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      computer   mpi process     threads    ndiag   complex/gamma_only  
      time for diaghg    version   Libs<br>
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         jade         32             1          1      complex
        (cdiaghg)                                  27.44 s     
        4.3.2     sequential<br>
         jade         32             1          1      complex
        (cdiaghg)                                 > 10 min    
        4.3.2     threads<br>
         jade         32             1          1      complex
        (cdiaghg)                                 > 10 min    
        5.0.1     threads<br>
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    This is no sense, something really weird is happening. If Jade is
    intel based, then you<br>
    have to link mkl multi-threads, which, as far as I know (tested on
    our cluster) are<br>
    very good, and no performance lost (of this amount)<br>
    have ever been reported or registered between single thread and
    multithreads.<br>
    Print out the environment and, being an SGI, check affinity and CPU
    sets.<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    carlo<br>
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      it is exactly the same job, just the libs have changed.<br>
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      For BGQ I run with bg_size=128, threads 4. My concern is that
      diaghg is 3 times slower than jade but with 4 times more mpi +
      threads. I was wondering if it is convenient to use threads in the
      diag or the libs are less efficient? boh! <br>
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      <div class="gmail_quote">2012/10/1 Ivan Girotto <span dir="ltr"><<a
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            target="_blank">igirotto@ictp.it</a>></span><br>
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          <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi Layla,<br>
            <br>
            I have never tried with 1thread as it's not recommended on
            BG/Q. At least 2threads x MPI process. <br>
            On the other hand I have some doubt about the way you are
            running the jobs? How big is the BG size? How many processes
            are you running per node in each of the 2 cases?<br>
            <br>
            I have some doubt about the question itself too. You are
            saying that you see a slow down comparing 4Threads Vs 1
            Threads. But from the table below you report only data with
            4 threads for BG/Q.<br>
            Have you perhaps switched the headers of the two columns
            Threads and Ndiag? <br>
            <br>
            It's expected that the SGI architecture based on Intel
            processors is faster than BG/Q. <br>
            <br>
            Ivan
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                On 01/10/2012 13:17, Layla Martin-Samos wrote: </div>
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                <div class="h5">Dear all, I have made some test
                  calculations on Fermi and Jade, for a 107 atoms
                  system, 70 Ry cutoff for wfc, 285 occupied bands and 1
                  kpoint. What the results seems to show is that the
                  diagonalization with multithreads lib seems to
                  considerably slowdown the diagonalization time (diaghd
                  is called 33 times on all the jobs and the final
                  results are identical). The compiled cineca version
                  gives identical time and results than 5.0.1.  Note
                  that jade in sequential is faster than BGQ. I am
                  continuing some other tests on jade, unfortunatelly
                  the runs stay a lot of time in the queue, the machine
                  is full and even for a 10 min job with 32 cores you
                  wait more than 3 hours. As attachement I put the two
                  make.sys for jade. <br>
                  <br>
                  <br>
                  omputer   mpi process     threads    ndiag  
                  complex/gamma_only   time for diaghg    version   Libs<br>
                  <br>
                   bgq         128             4          1      complex
                  (cdiaghg)                                 69.28 s     
                  5.0.1     threads<br>
                  bgq          128             4          1      complex
                  (cdiaghg)                                 69.14 s     
                  4.3.2     threads<br>
                  <br>
                   jade         32             1          1      complex
                  (cdiaghg)                                  27.44
                  s      4.3.2     sequential<br>
                   jade         32             1          1      complex
                  (cdiaghg)                                 > 10
                  min     4.3.2     threads<br>
                   jade         32             1          1      complex
                  (cdiaghg)                                 > 10
                  min     5.0.1     threads<br>
                  <br>
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                  bgq          128             4          4      complex
                  (cdiaghg)                                310.52 s     
                  5.0.1    threads<br>
                  <br>
                  bgq          128             4          4      gamma
                  (rdiaghg)                                    73.87
                  s      5.0.1    threads<br>
                  bgq          128             4          4      gamma
                  (rdiaghg)                                    73.71
                  s      4.3.2    threads<br>
                  <br>
                  bgq          128             4          1      gamma
                  (rdiaghg)                               CRASH 2 it    
                  5.0.1    threads<br>
                  bgq          128             4          1      gamma
                  (rdiaghg)                               CRASH 2 it    
                  4.3.2    threads<br>
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                  did someone observe a similar behavior? <br>
                  <br>
                  cheers <br>
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                  Layla<br>
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