Benchmarking Help

[drezha]

Hi Drezha/Chris,

Most of my AMD systems are running different Ubuntu flavours at the moment, does your benchmarking object to that?

Dirk - Uploaded the Linux version here. It assumes you're running a 64 bit distro.

The shell script should run the single core and then move onto the multicore.
Shell script is:

#!/bin/sh

# FDS Benchmarking - Scripts for Linux

# Make program executable
chmod +x ./fds5_linux_64
chmod +x ./fds5_mpi_linux_64

# Run FDS Single Core Benchmark
fds5_linux_64 bench1.fds

# Multicore Benchmark

# Install MPI Runtime
sudo apt-get install lam-runtime

# Start MPI
lamboot

# Run
mpirun -n 8 fds5_mpi_linux_64 Scale1.fds

If you don't want to run multicore, just delete the Multicore lines. You might want to play around with the -n flag and change it to match the number of cores you have on the machine. I also can't guarantee that the lam-runtime will work - it seemed to in an old test I ran on linux but I think it's a bit dated now.

Linux is an area I need to play around with. I'm hoping to get a cheap second hand PC system to play with and try it as all the rigs at work are Windows and I don't want to change my OSX setup on my Mac at home - downside is I'm looking for old AMD workstations of multicore machines with RAM and I can get some cheap looking rack servers but nowhere to store/run one!

EDIT:
Just realised that I hadn't set the script to CHMOD the MPI one so it should be as script shown above.