[Beowulf] Strange Opteron 2350 performance: Gaussian-03

[Greg Lindahl]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 02:30:54AM +0400, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote:

> (BTW, there is one bad thing for stream on this server - the  
> corresponding data are absent in McCalpin's table: the throughput is  
> scaled good from 1 to 2 OpenMP threads, and gives good result for 8  
> threads, but the throughput for 4 threads is about the same as for 2  
> threads. The reason is, IMHO, that for 8 threads RAM is allocated by  
> kernel in both nodes, but for 4 threads the RAM allocated is placed in  
> one node, and 4 threads have bad competition for memory access).   

Er, this is not a general result, but is a function of your OpenMP
implementation. We just discussed it a couple of days ago, right here.

-- greg