On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Handy visualization, though I think the red text is excessive [1] and as > something unrelated from correctness of the installation, I'm not sure > it should be displayed as part of "make all", especially when it doesn't > run on batch systems. > > I see a lot of variability between runs (e.g., erratic performance on > es.mcs.anl.gov attached), so perhaps we should be making box-and-whisker > plots. This is a balancing act because we don't want the test to take a > long time to run. > I had to look this up. This would be fine for centers to post, but not as an easy thing we run. > While the "ideal speedup" line is visceral, it makes it hard to see > what's actually happening. I would either remove that line or add a > second y axis that is unscaled (second attachment). Either way, we > should find a way to report numbers rather than unscaled speedup. > I think a second plot with effective bandwidth would be great. Putting it on the first plot is too busy for me. Matt > It's crazy that a plot of intra-node scalability of STREAMS is not > posted prominently in computing facility documentation. > > > [1] I still disagree with using colored text unconditionally. I don't > want control characters in log files and emails. We could test whether > output is going to a TTY so long as a separate stream is being sent to > the screen than the log files. > > > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener
