[yt-dev] Good benchmark?

j s oishi jsoishi at gmail.com
Fri Mar 1 11:17:24 PST 2013


Matt,

It might be helpful if you shared some more details of this particular
benchmarking exercise, if you can. It would be helpful for making sure
we present the most usefil information to the people asking for it as
well as info that is useful to us going forwards.

j

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Definitely, yes.  For what it's worth, the specific use case I have in
> mind is for performance testing a system, so I think scalability will
> be important.
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It might be worth showing how well this works on a single proc as well as
>> how well it works using parallel mode on a few different numbers of
>> processors.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Christopher Moody <chrisemoody at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Perhaps a benchmark for simply calculating a derived field? This would
>>> then profile a much smaller codebase.
>>>
>>> Also benchmarking projections/fields for AMR/octree/particles of similar
>>> resolutions would be pretty cool.
>>>
>>> chris
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Okay, I like that idea.  So a unified script with timing for in each
>>>> section might include:
>>>>
>>>>  * Halo profiling
>>>>  * Global projection
>>>>  * Global profiles
>>>>  * Global VR (CTF and OffAxisProj)
>>>>
>>>> I think we probably want a large unigrid and a large AMR dataset to
>>>> run these on, too.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <goldbaum at ucolick.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Probably a good idea to try some off axis projections or simple volume
>>>> > renderings to test the VR code.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hi all,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I got an email asking for a benchmark of yt.  I think this is very,
>>>> >> very valuable to have going forward.  I was wondering if anyone had
>>>> >> any suggestions?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I'm thinking that we probably want to test things like the halo
>>>> >> finder, projections, and phase plots.  Would a medium (1536^3) halo
>>>> >> profiling run do that?  Do we want to add on some global projections
>>>> >> and phase plots as well?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> -Matt
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>> University of Arizona
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