[Pw_forum] newbie update

[Axel Kohlmeyer]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Carlo Nervi wrote:

CN> > Carlo Nervi wrote:
CN> >
CN> >> Total wall time (s) spent in this run:  5274.73
CN> >> Reference                            :  720.04
CN> >>
CN> >> There are few discrepancies, but they seems
CN> >> reasonables..
CN> >> or not?
CN> >
CN> > they do. What doesn't seem reasonable to me is 2 1/2 h for
CN> > a series of tests that take 12 min not on the "ExaFlop
CN> > Machine", but on a rather standard 3GHz IntelCore2 E6850
CN> > (the one I have in front). There is something really
CN> > strange in your setup.
CN> 
CN> This is exactly what I was wondering. During the tests 4
CN> CPUs were running at 10%, while the other four were
CN> running at 1-5%.
CN> It must be something wrong in my settings, but I cannot
CN> figure it out.

how much memory does your machine have? 
what else is running on that machine?

CN> Anyone could please provide a sort of "semi-standard"
CN> make.sys for ifort and mkl with a working mpi?

if you could run the tests, your make.sys should be ok.
either you do something really strange that limits the
MPI communications (and i cannot imagine what that would
be) or there is something else going on that you have not
paid attention to.
how does the machine behave, if you compile a serial executable?

cheers,
   axel.

CN> Cheers,
CN>   Carlo
CN> 
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