FEEDS Timings Tables

These tables give the output of running /usr/bin/time ./RUN all in the top level FEEDS directory; this is user CPU time, i.e. the time with a u by it.

If you are interested in adding your timings to this table, email us with the full output of running the test, along with a description of your hardware, the output of uname -a and the version of the compiler (if any) that you used to compile FSL. Note that a timing is not very meaningful if you do not have enough RAM for the test to run without needing to do any swapping.

FSL 5.0.4

Hardware

OS

time(s)

speed(relative)

Apple 15" MacBook Pro Retina 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 (Turbo to 3.7GHz) 16GB

Mac OS X 10.8.4

1002

1.0

Dell Desktop, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU (Quad-core) @ 3.40GHz 16GB

RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.4

1270

1.27

Dell M610 blade, 2x Intel Xeon E5640 Quad-core @ 2.67GHz 64GB

CentOS 6.4

1871

1.87

Transtec (SuperMicro) SuperBlade, 2x Intel Xeon X5365 Quad-core @ 3.0GHz 32GB

CentOS 6.4

1879

1.88

Dell C6145 2 units of 4x AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6328 Octo-core @ 3.2GHz 512GB

RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.4

1637

1.63

Tyan 2U server, 4x AMD Opteron 8431 @ 2.4GHz 128GB

CentOS 6.4

3026

3.02

Apple 15" MacBook Pro Retina 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 (Turbo to 3.7GHz) 16GB (4 cores, 8 'threads') parallel running times:

  • how many simultaneous FEEDS?

    real

    user

    Turbo clock speed

    1

    1027

    1002

    3.7GHz

    4

    1310

    1286

    3.3GHz

    8

    2080

    1970

    3.2GHz

    12

    3130

    1970

    3.2GHz

Conclusions: using all 4 cores nearly as fast as just 1. After this, not much gain, although if one has (e.g.) 8 processes to run, it's faster to run all 8 simultaneously than to run 4 at once and then the other 4, assuming everything can fit in RAM.

FSL 5.0.0

Hardware

OS

time(s)

speed(relative)

Apple MacBook Pro 17' laptop 2.3GHz Intel Core i7 8GB

OS X 10.6.8

1153

1.00

FSL 4.1.0-5

Apple MacBook Pro 17' laptop 2.3GHz Intel Core i7 8GB (4 cores, 8 'threads') parallel running times:

  • 1 at a time:

    1127 real

    1093 user

    4 at a time (average timings):

    1378 real

    1335 user

    8 at a time (average timings):

    2312 real

    2193 user

Conclusion: using all 4 cores nearly as fast as just 1, but not much point using more processes than cores.

Hardware

OS

time(s)

speed(relative)

Intel Core i7-2600K 16GB

Ubuntu

954

0.52

Apple MacBook Pro 17' laptop 2.3GHz Intel Core i7 8GB

OS X 10.6.7

1093

0.61

Dell Precision T7500 Xeon W5590 3.33GHz 64 Bit 12GB

Ubuntu

1201

0.67

Apple MacBook Pro 17' laptop 2.66GHz Intel Core i7 8GB

OS X 10.6.3

1430

0.79

Apple MacBook Pro 17' laptop 2.93GHz core 2 duo 64bit 8GB

OS X 10.5.6

1638

0.91

Dell PowerEdge 2950 Server 2xQuadCore 3.16GHz Xeon 32GB

RH EL 5

1675

0.93

Apple MacBook Pro 15' laptop 2.8GHz core 2 duo 64bit 4GB

OS X 10.5.5

1694

0.94

Apple MacBook Pro 17' laptop 2.6GHz core 2 duo 64bit 4GB

OS X 10.5.4

1801

1

Apple Mac Pro 2.8GHz 8-core 64bit 8GB

OS X 10.5.4

1823

1.01

Dell Optiplex 960 3.4GHz 2-core 4GB

Ubuntu

2115

1.17

FSL 4.0.2-3

Hardware

OS

time(s)

speed(relative)

Apple Mac Pro 3.2GHz 8-core 64bit 2GB

OS X 10.5.2

1406

1.22

Apple MacBook Pro 17' laptop 2.6GHz core 2 duo 64bit 4GB

OS X 10.5.2

1553

1.10

Apple Mac Pro 3.2GHz 8-core 64bit 2GB

OS X 10.5.1

1556

1.10

Transtec Blade Dual quad-core Xeon 3GHz

CentOS 5.1

1648

1.04

Apple Mac Pro 3GHz 8-core 64bit 4GB

OS X 10.5.1

1714

1

Apple MacBook Pro 15' laptop 2.33GHz core 2 duo 64bit

OS X 10.5.2

1814

0.94

Transtec Blade Dual quad-core Xeon 2.33GHz

CentOS 5.1

1951

0.88

Apple iMac 2.33GHz core 2 duo 64bit 2GB

OS X 10.5.1

2050

0.84

Apple MacBook Air laptop 1.8GHz core 2 duo 64bit 2GB

OS X 10.5.2

2641

0.65

Sunfire X4100 2x AMD Opteron 280 dual core 2.4GHz 64bit

FC5

2720

0.63

FSL 4.0.0

Hardware

OS

time(s)

speed(relative)

Intel Core 2 Quad 64bit desktop 2.40GHz 4Gb

Centos 5

2165

1.35

Apple MacBook Pro Intel 15' laptop 2.4GHz core 2 duo 64bit

OS X 10.4.10

2901

1

Apple MacBook Pro Intel 15' laptop 2.33GHz core 2 duo 64bit

OS X 10.4.10

3038

0.95

Portable One UX520 Core Duo 2GHz 2Gb

XP/VirtualBox/Ubuntu

3215

0.90

Apple MacBook Intel 13' laptop 2.0GHz core 2 duo 64bit

OS X 10.4.10

3500

0.83

Sunfire X4100 2x AMD Opteron 280 dual core 2.4GHz 64bit

FC5

4220

0.69

Dell Precision dual Xeon 2.4GHz 2GB

OpenSuse 10.2

5536

0.52

FSL 3.3

Hardware

OS

time(s)

speed(relative)

Apple Mac`Book Pro Intel 15' laptop 2.33GHz core 2 duo 64bit (64bit compilation)

OS X 10.4.8

2011

0.68

AMD Athlon 2x dual core 4400+ 64bit

Ubuntu

2095

0.71

Apple Mac`Book Pro Intel 15' laptop 2.33GHz core 2 duo 64bit

OS X 10.4.8

2300

0.78

Sunfire X4100 2x AMD Opteron 280 dual core 2.4GHz 64bit

FC5

2594

0.88

AMD Athlon dual core 4400+ 64bit

Suse 10

2740

0.93

AMD Athlon dual core 4400+ 64bit

Ubuntu 6.06

2827

0.96

Apple Power Mac G5 quad 2.5GHz

OS X 10.4.5

2946

1

Apple Mac`Book Intel 13' laptop 2GHz

OS X 10.4.6

3099

1.05

|| Apple Mac`Book Pro Intel 15' laptop 2.16GHz || OS X 10.4.6 || 3134 || 1.06 ||

FSL 3.2

Hardware

OS

time(s)

speed(relative)

AMD Athlon dual core 4400 gcc-64bit

Suse 10

2750

0.45

AMD Athlon dual 2.45GHz 64bit

Suse 9.1

3026

0.50

Apple XServe G5 dual 2.3GHz gcc-64bit

OS X 10.4

3177

0.52

Apple XServe G5 dual 2GHz

OS X 10.3.5

3990

0.66

Intel Xeon dual 2.8GHz

Suse 9.1

4067

0.67

AMD Athlon dual 2.1GHz

Redhat 9

4144

0.68

Compaq Alpha ES40 667MHz gcc-64bit

TRU64 5.1

6070

1

Apple Power`Book G4 15' laptop 1.67GHz

OS X 10.3.5

6177

1.02

Apple Power`Book G4 15' laptop 1.5GHz

OS X 10.3.5

6738

1.11

Apple Mac Mini G4 1.25GHz 512MB

OS X 10.3.5

7755

1.28

Intel Pentium III dual 1.4GHz

Redhat 7

8507

1.40

FSL 3.1

Hardware

OS

time(s)

speed(relative)

Dual Intel Xeon 3GHz HT

Redhat 9

1519

0.66

AthlonXP 3000+

SuSE 9.1

1605

0.69

Pentium IV 3GHz

SuSE 9.1

1634

0.71

Apple Power`Mac G5 Dual 2GHz

OS X 10.2

1840

0.80

AMD Athlon 2.1GHz (gcc3)

Redhat 9

2106

0.91

Centrino 1.7GHz Vaio Z1XSP laptop

SuSE 9.1

2100

0.91

Centrino 1.7GHz Samsung laptop

SUSE 9.0

2295

0.99

Compaq Alpha ES40 667MHz

TRU64 5.1

2313

1

AMD Dual Athlon 1.8GHz (gcc3)

Redhat 8

2417

1.04

Pentium IV 2.6GHz

Windows XP / Cygwin

2464

1.07

Centrino 1.5GHz Vaio laptop

Redhat 9

2575

1.11

AMD Athlon 1.6GHz

Redhat 7

3124

1.35

Pentium III Dual 1.4GHz

Redhat 9

3214

1.39

HP nc4000 laptop - Pentium M 1.4GHz

Windows XP / Cygwin

3925

1.70

Pentium III 1GHz Vaio laptop

Redhat 7.1

4217

1.82

Apple Power`Book G4 17-inch laptop 1GHz

OS X 10.2.6

4289

1.85

Pentium III 1GHz Vaio laptop

Windows XP / Cygwin

4505

1.95

Apple Power`Book G4 12-inch laptop 867MHz

OS X 10.2.4

5438

2.35

Apple Power`Book G4 15-inch laptop 667MHz

OS X 10.1

6550

2.83

Sun Ultra-30 300MHz

Solaris 5.6

14756

6.38

SGI O2 150MHz

IRIX 6.3

25039

10.83

FSL 3.0

Hardware

OS

time(s)

speed(relative)

AMD Dual Athlon 1.8GHz (gcc3)

Redhat 8

2259

0.74

Compaq Alpha ES40 667MHz

TRU64 5.1

3050

1

AMD Athlon 1.6GHz

Redhat 7

3083

1.01

Pentium III Dual 1.4GHz

Redhat 8

4014

1.32

Pentium III 1GHz Vaio laptop

Windows XP / Cygwin

4300

1.41

Pentium III 1GHz Vaio laptop

Redhat 7.1

4389

1.44

Apple Dual G4 867MHz

OS X 10.2.1

4737

1.55

Apple Power`Book G4 12-inch laptop 867MHz

OS X 10.2.4

5097

1.67

Apple Power`Book G4 15-inch laptop 667MHz

OS X 10.1

6480

2.12

Pentium III 733

Redhat 7.1

7507

2.46

SGI Origin 200 180MHz

IRIX 6.5

12650

4.15

Sun Ultra-30 300MHz

Solaris 5.6

19900

6.52

FSL 1.3

Hardware

OS

time(s)

speed(relative)

AMD Athlon 1.6GHz

Redhat 7

39

0.85

Pentium IV 2GHz

Redhat 7.2

44

0.98

Compaq Alpha ES40 667MHz

TRU64 5.1

46

1

Pentium IV 1.5GHz

Redhat 7.1

54

1.2

AMD Athlon 1.2GHz

Redhat 7.1

58

1.3

Compaq Alpha EV6 500MHz

TRU64 5.1

69

1.5

AMD Athlon 1GHz

Redhat 7.0

72

1.6

Apple Dual G4 800MHz

OS X.1 / Darwin 1.4

78

1.7

Pentium III 1GHz Vaio laptop

Redhat 7.1

82

1.8

Pentium III 800MHz

Redhat 6.2

88

1.9

Apple Power`Book G4 laptop 667MHz

OS X.1 / Darwin 1.4

100

2.2

Sun Blade-1000 USIII 750MHz

Solaris 5.8

116

2.5

Pentium III 500MHz

Redhat 7.1

138

3

SGI Origin 200 180MHz

IRIX 6.5

183

4

Sun Ultrasparc II 300MHz

Solaris 5.6

287

6.2

 

FEEDS/TimingResults (last edited 08:17:55 02-08-2013 by DuncanMortimer)