Re: [Meep-discuss] meep-mpi scaling perf with more than 2 processors

2010-07-15 Thread gdemesy
Hi Shavkat, thanks a lot for your quick answer. 1)You are right, I didn't mention the layout of the cluster. For now, I'm working on one node of a larger machine based on Intel's Nehalem architecture (I'm trying to evaluate performance on only one node before using more). Each node has 16Gb

Re: [Meep-discuss] h5topng problem in 3d dataset

2010-07-15 Thread Nizamov Shawkat
> h5topng -z 1 -R -Zc dkbluered -a yarg -A ez-000200.00.h5 > > -A : overlay data from , as specified by -y If you are using -A, you have to specify 2 files, one for -A feature (don't know what is it) and one as an actual datafile. h5topng sees only one and attributes it to -A. So, you didn't spec

Re: [Meep-discuss] meep-mpi scaling perf with more than 2 processors

2010-07-15 Thread Nizamov Shawkat
1) You didn't provide any details on the layout of your cluster. It is hard to guess if you have a several dual-cores with 16Gb memory, or they are 6 cores and you are running only on one of them. 2) I resemble that using 4 (or was it 8?) core Athlon in single PC there were no acceleration beyond

[Meep-discuss] h5topng problem in 3d dataset

2010-07-15 Thread J D
Dear Meep users, I met a problem when I use h5topng to output a 2D slice from a 3D dataset. My 3d dataset is 160*80*80 array. I want to output the 2 D slice at z=1, I input the command : h5topng -z 1 -R -Zc dkbluered -a yarg -A ez-000200.00.h5 There is nothing happend. And there will appear some

[Meep-discuss] meep-mpi scaling perf with more than 2 processors

2010-07-15 Thread gdemesy
Dear Meep users and developer, I'm getting strange scaling performance using meep-mpi compiled with IntelMPI on our cluster. When I go from 1 to 2 processors, I'm getting an almost ideal scaling (i.e. runtime is divided by almost 2 as shown below for various problem sizes), but the scaling