Performance

Single processor performance

As a basic performance test we run the simulations in the test directory with these commands (on Linux):

cd testjobs
time ./calc_testjobs

• We report the user time.
• CPU properties are found with

  cat /proc/cpuinfo

  and model names from List of Intelmicroprocessors for Intel (also see the detailed lists of Intel x86 CPUs) and List of AMD microprocessors for AMD cpus (also see the detailed lists of AMD CPUs).
• Also report the binary used (hippo or hippo_p3) and the revision.
• Note that these tests only utilize a single core.
• These results only give a rough idea of the relative performance of different architectures.
• The timings have errorbars of about ±2s

Please add your own results.

Benchmark (single core) and scaling results on multiple cores/cpus.

vendor	model	GHz	cores	time/min	binary	revision	scaling
Intel	Core 2 Quad Q9550	2.83	4	1:04	hippo	rev32
Intel	Core 2 Quad Q9550	2.83	4	1:05	hippo	rev35	Error creating thumbnail: sh: 1: /usr/bin/convert: not found Error code: 127 Intel Quad Core Q9550 2.8 GHz
Intel	Core 2 Quad Q9550	2.83	4	1:06	hippo_p3	rev32
Intel	Quad Core Xeon E5420	2.5	4	1:16	hippo	rev35	Error creating thumbnail: sh: 1: /usr/bin/convert: not found Error code: 127 Dual Intel Quad Core Xeon E5420 2.5 GHz
Intel	Quad Core Xeon E5420	2.5	4	1:16	hippo	rev32
Intel	Quad Core Xeon L5410	2.33	4	1:27	hippo	rev32
Intel	Quad Core Xeon L5410	2.33	4	1:31	hippo_p3	rev32
AMD	Phenom X4 9850	2.5	4	1:36	hippo_p3	rev32
AMD	Phenom X4 9850	2.5	4	1:37	hippo_p3	rev35	Error creating thumbnail: sh: 1: /usr/bin/convert: not found Error code: 127 AMD Phenom X4 9850 Quad Core 2.5 GHz
AMD	Opteron 248	2.2	1	2:18	hippo_p3	rev32
Intel	Core Duo T2300 (Mac Mini)	1.66	2	2:41	hippo_p3	rev32
Intel	Xeon 2.4	2.4	1	3:03	hippo_p3	rev26
AMD	Athlon XP 1800+	1.53	1	4:30	hippo_p3	rev26

(You don't have to link to the CPU wikipedia page; just put down whatever you got and even if you're unsure. If in doubt just put the output from

cat /proc/cpuinfo | \
  awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"}; \
      /vendor_id/ {vendor=$2}; \
      /model name/ {model=$2}; \
      /cpu MHz/ {GHz=$2/1000}; \
      /siblings/ {cores=$2}; \
      END {printf("|-\n| %s\n| %s\n| %.1f\n| %d\n| TIME\n| ?\n| ?\n", vendor, model, GHz, cores)}'

into the wiki table and replace TIME by what you measured.

Scaling

All tests were run with Hippo beta rev35 on empty systems. See remarks on the test methodology.

In the table below, # cpus really means how many independent cores are available.

Scaling of the Hippo WALP test case using OpenMP on single-board machines

vendor	# cpus	walltime and scaling
Intel	4	Error creating thumbnail: sh: 1: /usr/bin/convert: not found Error code: 127 Intel Quad Core Q9550 2.8 GHz
Intel	8	Error creating thumbnail: sh: 1: /usr/bin/convert: not found Error code: 127 Dual Intel Quad Core Xeon E5420 2.5 GHz
AMD	4	Error creating thumbnail: sh: 1: /usr/bin/convert: not found Error code: 127 AMD Phenom X4 9850 Quad Core 2.5 GHz