<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Frank,<div><br><div><div>On Feb 21, 2013, at 8:05 PM, Frank Loeffler wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 06:31:23PM -0700, Bruno Giacomazzo wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I found out that the problem is due to 1D ASCII output<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(which is active in that parfile) and that makes the runs<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>particularly slow above ~100 cores on this machine.<br></blockquote><br>That is not not just on this machine. xD output with x>=1 doesn't scale.<br>Anywhere. Use HDF5, except for debugging where ASCII might be more<br>convenient and you don't care about performance. There isn't much you<br>could do about that without changing CarpetIOASCII.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>thank you for your comment. It's the first time that I see such a strong impact on runs using only ~100 cores. One of the reasons I did these tests was also that I was experiencing some problems with one of my production runs that was slower on Stampede than on Ranger.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and hence I didn't plot them in the other figure). I didn't try<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>using 1D hdf5 output instead, does anyone use it?<br></blockquote><br>Not 1D, but 2D, and that works very well.<br></div></blockquote></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I use 2D hdf5, but sometimes it's useful to have also 1D data (without having to postprocess 2D or 3D hdf5 files). I never used the 1D hdf5 output available in Carpet and I was wondering if other people use it.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Bruno</div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Bruno Giacomazzo</div><div>JILA - University of Colorado</div><div>440 UCB<br>Boulder, CO 80309</div><div>USA</div><div><br></div><div>Tel. : +1 303-492-5170</div><div><div>Fax : +1 303-492-5235</div></div><div>email : <a href="mailto:bruno.giacomazzo@jila.colorado.edu">bruno.giacomazzo@jila.colorado.edu</a></div><div>web: <a href="http://www.brunogiacomazzo.org">http://www.brunogiacomazzo.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>There are only 10 types of people in the world:</div><div>Those who understand binary, and those who don't</div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></span></span></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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