[openib-general] tests and performance targets

Wed Apr 14 15:32:19 PDT 2004

Also pointers to where people can download the benchmarks 
might also be useful. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Fab Tillier [mailto:ftillier at infiniconsys.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 3:18 PM
To: openib-general at openib.org
Subject: RE: [openib-general] tests and performance targets

Could the matrix of test results be posted to the OpenIB site?  It would
be useful in preventing duplication of efforts.

- Fab

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Harm [mailto:jharm at llnl.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 3:18 PM
> To: openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: [openib-general] tests and performance targets
> 
> Here's a partial list of some initial tests we are interested in 
> automating for evaluating improvements over versions and stacks.
> 
> From the Presta1.2 suite:
> com measuring throughput and (with options) cross-sectional
bandwidth
> laten   measuring latency
> allred      measuring a sequential latency across many nodes
> and from Pallas:
> PMB-MPI1    measuring lots of stuff with ping-pong, pong-pong, etc.
> 
> We've seen about 820 MB per second with about 5.9 usec latency using 
> the Voltaire stack on dual Opteron PCI-X nodes.
> 
> I'd like to know if anyone can recommend some other public domain 
> tests and see if anyone has a framework for automation or evaluation 
> of the test results.
> 
> Also, we'll be having to keep track of hardware, version of stack, 
> version of test, version of compiler, other variables that can give us

> important information while analyzing the results. If a framework has 
> been used elsewhere that can be adapted to this application, it would 
> save time.
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> James E. Harm (Jim); jharm at llnl.gov
> System Administrator, ICCD Clusters
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