ENZO

ENZO Performance Study Summary

On this page will show the performance result for ENZO from the svn repository. We did this in par to see the effect of load balancing (not enabled in version 1.5) on scaling performance. The previous performance results for ENZO version 1 are at here.

Enzo Version 1.5

Following the release of Enzo 1.5 in November 08 we have done some follow up performance studies. Our initial findings are similar to what we found for version 1. For example see this chart showing the scaling behavior of Enzo 1.5 on Kraken:

Scaling behavior was very similar on Ranger.

This poor scaling behavior could be anticipated by looking at the runtime breakdown (mean of 64 processors on Ranger):

with this much time spent in MPI communication increasing the number of processors is unlikely to result in much faster simulations. Looking more closely at MPI_Recv and MPI_Barrier we see that on average 6.9ms is spent per call in MPI_Recv and 38.5ms for MPI_Barrier. This is much longer than can be explained by communication latency on Ranger's infiniband interconnect.