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Performance of the LOTAAS v.1 pipeline on cartesius
Time taken by the individual pipeline components per beam (24-core node)
fits2fil: 6min
rfifind: 15min
mpiprepsubband (253 trials): 3min
single pulse search: 1min
realfft: 10sec
rednoise: 10sec
accelsearch (-zmax=0 ; –numharm=16): 1min20sec
accelsearch (-zmax=50 ; –numharm=16): 12min
accelsearch (-zmax=50 ; –numharm=8): 5min
accelsearch (-zmax=50 ; –numharm=8): 26min
plots: 20sec
python sifting and folding: 21min
pfd scrunching: 5sec
data copying: a few secs
candidate scoring: a few secs
Total time spent for the first large set of DM trials (0-4000)
mpiprepsubband: 40min
sp: 16min
realfft: 3.5min
rednoise: 3.5min
accelsearch (zmax=0;numharm=16): 21min
accelsearch (zmax=0;numharm=16): 192min
Total time spent for the second large set of DM trials (4000-10000)
mpiprepsubband: 24min
sp: 8min
realfft: 2min
rednoise: 2min
accelsearch (zmax=0;numharm=16): 11min
accelsearch (zmax=0;numharm=16): 96min
| % time alloc. | zmax=0;numharm=16 | zmax=50;numharm=16 | zmax=50;numharm=8 | zmax=200;numharm=8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fil conversion | 3 | 1 | ||
| rfifind | 9 | 3 | ||
| dedispersion | 37 | 16 | ||
| sp search | 14 | 5 | ||
| realfft | 3 | 1 | ||
| rednoise | 3 | 1 | ||
| accelsearch | 18 | 67 | ||
| folding | 12 | 5 | ||
| data copying/etc | 1 | 1 |
Total processing time per beam (zmax=0;numharm=16): ~3hours
Total processing time per beam (zmax=50;numharm=16): ~7hours
Performance of the LOTAAS v.1 GPU pipeline on cartesius
mpiprepsubband (253 trials): 38sec
Data transfering (CEP$/LTA)
32-bit to 8-bit downsampling on CEP2 (per observation): 6-8 hours Transferring from CEP2 to LTA (per observation): 2-3 hours Observation downloading on cartesius (1-core): ~8hours