Hi Ray,
> On a separate topic, but related to your post here, how did you do
> the timing? [Especially to so many digits of accuracy. :-) ]
two things to consider:
i) What do I actually (want to) measure?
ii) How accurate can I do that?
i)
Option iA) execution time of the whole program
One could use /usr/bin/time. Simple, but that is not that accurate. If
you do not need microsecond accuracy and measure all the things you
want to compare in the same fashion a run like "/usr/bin/time mpirun
-np X myprog" should perfectly suits your needs.
Option iB) time my 'crunching core' runs
Something in rank0 like
"time1=gettime(); crunch_alot(); time2=gettime(); time_used=time2-time1;"
is much better suited to actually measure only the important parts,
esp. if they can run shortly compared to overall programm execution
time. (this assumes that crunch_alot() has a barrier character, e.g. by
collecting values from all processes at the end)
ii)
MPI_Wtime() is generally considered the best way, as it is platform
independent and usually MPI libs try to use the most accurate
measurement method available on every certain platform.
I've just used gettimeofday(), because some of my demo apps are
intended to run independent of MPI. So my accuracy is at most micro
seconds (on some platforms that might be different; e.g. only 10ms-steps).
> [Especially to so many digits of accuracy. :-) ]
By unsuitably using printf("%.9f",time) ;-)
I've just not cleared up that part. (But still the thing
I wanted to demonstrate became quite apparent.)
Best regards,
Fabian
