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We've actually noticed the opposite results here with OS X 10.4 vs. |
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Linux as far as HPL goes. |
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I don't have the numbers on hand, but Linux was notably faster with HPL |
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over both GigE and |
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Myrinet. In fact the numbers for Colsa (our partner) in the Top500 were |
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achieved using Yellow |
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Dog instead of OS X. That being said if you have a moment I have a few |
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questions: |
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1.) What libraries were you using? Did you use Goto's? |
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2.) Which compiler(s) did you use? |
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3.) What sort of setup do you have? Diskless or not and so on. |
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Brady Catherman wrote: |
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> Unfortunately BPS has an annoying habit of overwriting the test output |
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> files every time it is run regardless of which test you actually run. |
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> I didn't notice this when I was doing my initial stuff on RedHat so I |
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> lost all the other tests results from BPS. I have better tests of the |
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> hardware since then. We ran HPL on the PowerPC cluster running both |
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> Gentoo 2005.1 and Mac OS 10.4 (mac os was ~ %5 faster on average). I |
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> ran IOZone on our XRaid using HFS+ under Mac OS, and Reiser, xfs, jfs, |
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> and ext3 under Gentoo for PPC64. |
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> I also ran tests using Mr Bayes, ClustalW, MPIBench, and several other |
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> in house tests that I had available but all of these tests where |
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> either inconclusive or failed to demonstrate any difference between |
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> the platforms. |
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> I will be doing a bunch of this again here in a bit in order to get |
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> data on our new OS build we are putting into production =) |
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> On Apr 11, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Brandon Edens wrote: |
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>>> Yeah, from the numbers it looks as if it would be dependent on the |
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>>> purpose of the cluster whether OS X or Gentoo would do better. On ppc, |
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>>> Gentoo does poorly on the first two benchmarks and also on context |
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>>> switching. On x86, the first two are more comparable with RH, but the |
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>>> others, Gentoo has a small to large advantage over RH, just as on ppc. |
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>> First and second benchmarks are dhrystone and whetstone, synthetic |
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>> benchmarks. |
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>> I'd be wary of these types of benchmarks; they've been cheated |
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>> before. I'd like |
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>> to see some real-world computation benchmarks. |
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>> Brandon Edens |
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> --gentoo-cluster@g.o mailing list |
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Justin Bronder |
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University of Maine, Orono |
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Advanced Computing Research Lab |
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20 Godfrey Dr |
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Orono, ME 04473 |
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www.clusters.umaine.edu |
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Mathematics Department |
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425 Neville Hall |
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Orono, ME 04469 |
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