[openib-general] tests and performance targets

Wed Apr 14 15:18:09 PDT 2004

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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