Number of cores used |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Test 1, CPU time and relative speedup |
2458.6 100% |
1242.0 198% |
841.0 292% |
649.9 378% |
Test 2, Wall clock time and relative speedup |
117.4 100% |
73.4 160% |
59.8 196% |
53.9 218% |
Test 3, CPU time and relative speedup |
4378.2 100% |
2136.4 205% |
1424.9 307% |
1081.7 405% |
Test 4, Wall clock time and relative speedup |
654.1 100% |
342.8 191% |
256.1 255% |
194.5 336% |
Test 5, CPU time and relative speedup |
3694.0 100% |
1891.1 195% |
1302.5 284% |
1016.5 363% |
Test 6, CPU time and relative speedup |
14238.5 100% |
7226.3 197% |
4873.6 292% |
3703.8 384% |
Standard MP4(SDTQ) benchmark, Wall clock time and relative speedup |
4510.5 100% |
2481.2 182% |
1638.4 275% |
1293.5 349% |
Standard MCQDPT2 benchmark, Wall clock time and relative speedup |
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93035.2 100% |
Hardware: AMD Quad-core Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2 GHz, Asus M4A79T Deluxe Mainboard,
4x2GB (dual channel, unganged mode) DDR3-1333 ECC unbuffered RAM@1333 MHz, four WDC 1 TB SATA-2 WD10
OS: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2.
Test 1, single-point direct DFT (B3LYP) energy plus gradient for medium-size system (623 basis functions). View image
Test 2, single-point semiempirical (PM3) energy plus gradient for large system (540 atoms, 2160 basis functions). View image
Test 3, single-point direct MP2 energy for medium-size system (623 basis functions, the same system as one used for Test 1). View image
Test 4, single-point two-state MCQDPT2 energy with ISA energy denominators shift for small model system. View image
Test 5, single-point direct CASSCF(12,12) for medium-size system (retinal molecule, cc-pVDZ, 565 Cartesian basis functions) using ALDET code. View image
Test 6, single-point direct CIS energy plus gradient of first excited state of medium-size system (porphyrin molecule, cc-pVTZ (aug-cc on Nitrogens), 1130 Cartesian basis functions, D2h group). View image
Tests 2, 4, as well as standard MCQDPT2 and MP4 benchmarks were run in multithreaded mode, other tests were run in standard parallel mode using dynamic load balancing over p2p interface. MPI: Intel MPI version 3.1 using mpiexec.exe -genv I_MPI_WAIT_MODE 1 settings. Call64 switch was turned on for all tests for faster processing. Note that test 2 does not scale well mainly due to limitations of the Firefly's semiempirical code, while test 4 would scale much better for larger job. Test 5 is the most memory and communications intensive one. CPU or Wall clock times are given on master node in seconds.
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