Re: work-load imbalance (again, but for SPH calculation)

From: yanbin YANG <yanbin.yang_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:50:24 +0800

Dear Yves,

Many thanks! I will try and report the results.

best,
Yanbin.

On 30/06/2010 4:39 PM, Yves Revaz wrote:
> Hi Yanbin,
>
> Did you first try to change
>
> if(TopNodes[sub].Count> All.TotNumPart / (TOPNODEFACTOR * NTask * NTask))
> to
> if(TopNodes[sub].Count> All.TotNumPart / (TOPNODEFACTOR * NTask))
>
> as proposed by Volker ?
>
> http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/gadget/gadget-list/
>
> see : Domain decomposition takes too much time
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> yves
>
>
>> I feel the imbalance is linked to the domain decomposition. Because
>> during the merger, the gas component may be decoupled from baryon
>> strongly, while the domain decomposition is a global process ignoring
>> the type of particles (I don't know if I'm correct), Thus when N_CPU
>> increases, more regions are created. Some CPUs may have very large
>> number of gas particles, some may have few gas particles.
>> One thing I should tell you is that at the early stage of the simulation,
>> the work-load looks nice, the imbalance become significant after
>> the interaction begins.
>>
>>
>> Am I right? If I'm, is that possible to improve that? Any comments are
>> welcome.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Yanbin.
>>
>>
>>
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