From: Brian Bennion (brian_at_youkai.llnl.gov)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2006 - 12:02:29 CDT
Hello,
I have been comparing timing differences between NAMD 2.5 and 2.6 on the
apoa1 benchmark.
I noticed something strange. The secs/step for 32 cpus decrease
0.077 to 0.070 which I thought was great, however, the final wall clock
actually increase from 51.43s (namd2.5) to 55.11s (namd2.6) for the same
32 cpus.
Then I looked at the last timing output statement at step 500 and saw that
namd2.5 was 45.03s while namd2.6 was 41.72s. So the ouputs during runtime
seem to be congruent, but the final wall clocks don't follow in the same
direction.
My questions are then, which metric should be trusted and secondly why are
the final wall clock values backwards?
Thank you for your help.
brian
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Biosciences Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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