[Wien] WIEN2k 09 poor benchmarks

Scott Beardsley scott at cse.ucdavis.edu
Fri Feb 13 19:38:04 CET 2009


I've had a test out the new version of WIEN2k (09). I'm seeing a 
disturbing trend. It looks like 9 is *two times slower* for both hybrid 
and mpi runs starting at 2cpus[1]. Both of these runs were with binaries 
compiled in an identical fashion*. Same compiler, same scalapack 
library, same math library, same mpi library, and same hardware. Can 
someone else double check my work and run the mpi-benchmark code also 
for both 8 and 9?

* Compiled identically with the exception of FFTW. v9 seems to add fftw 
whereas v8 didn't have that requirement. I've tried the mpi-benchmark 
with both single and double precision fftw libraries but that didn't 
affect the results.

Thanks,
Scott
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[1] http://wiki.cse.ucdavis.edu/support:hpc:software:wien2k#results


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