Thanks, once I get my new Intel installation running in tandem with a gcc one, I'll report back. mark
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> "SU" == Simon Urbanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:52:14 -0400 writes: > > SU> On Jun 3, 2008, at 3:58 AM, Ludo Pagie wrote: > > >> recently there was a post on R-help/Rd ?? with this link > >> on benchmarking different 'number crunching > >> packages'. They used a series of tests, although I didn't > >> check they used all the types you mentioned. I couldn't > >> find test code at first glance but myyebe it is available > >> on request??? > >> > >> http://www.sciviews.org/benchmark/ > >> > > SU> It's quite outdated and doesn't work with the current R versions, > > Yes, that was the topic of the recent R-help post mentioned > above. And because of that I did post an updated version back to the > list. > Here's the posting, as found on http://search.r-project.org : > http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/130270.html > and the R script here > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20080514/0ccea72b/attachment.pl > > SU> but I have an updated version that works. I have put some > SU> benchmarks I'm aware of at > > SU> http://r.research.att.com/benchmarks/ > > That's cool! Thanks, Simon! > Martin > > >> On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Mark Kimpel wrote: > >> > >>> Recently I posted to this list with a question about > >>> using the Intel 10.1 compilers in building R and one > >>> response was basically, "why in the heck would you want > >>> to do that?" The answer is that my sysadmin believes > >>> that there will be a performance boost with the Intel > >>> vs. Gnu compilers on our Linux cluster, of which I am > >>> one of many users. Wanting to be a good citizen and use > >>> my machine time wisely, I'd of course like to use right > >>> tool to build the most efficient installation of R and > >>> associated packages. BTW, we got R to compile nicely > >>> using the settings at the end of this post. > >>> > >>> Looking back on previous posts, however, it seems that > >>> there is no consensus as to how to benchmark R. I > >>> realize such a task is not trivial, nor controversial, > >>> but does anyone have a set of time-consuming tasks that > >>> can be used to compare R installations? It would seem > >>> logical that such a benchmark would include > >>> sub-benchmarks on file access, interpreted intensive > >>> tasks, C intensive tasks, BLAS intensive tasks, etc. You > >>> developers know more about this than I do, but I know > >>> enough to realize that there won't be one simple > >>> answer. Nevertheless, I'd like to make my usage > >>> decisions on something rather than anedotal claims. > >>> > >>> So, does anyone know of a good benchmarking script or > >>> would be willing to contribute one? > >>> > >>> And here are the settings we used to compile R with > >>> Intel 10.1 compilers: > >>> > >>> ../configure > >>> --prefix=/N/u/mkimpel/R_HOME/R-patched/R-build \ > >>> --with-system-zlib=/usr/lib64 > >>> --with-system-bzlib=/usr/lib64 \ > >>> --with-mpi=/N/soft/linux-rhel4-x86_64/openmpi/1.2.5/intel-64 > >>> --with- tcltk \ > >>> --with-tcl-config=/N/soft/linux-rhel4-x86_64/tcl8.4.16/lib64/ > >>> tclConfig.sh \ > >>> --with-tk-config=/N/soft/linux-rhel4-x86_64/tk8.4.16/lib64/ > >>> tkConfig.sh \ --without-x --without-readline > >>> --without-iconv \ > >>> CC="/N/soft/linux-rhel4-x86_64/intel/cce/10.1.013/bin/icc" > >>> \ CFLAGS="-O3 -no-prec-div -unroll" \ > >>> F77="/N/soft/linux-rhel4-x86_64/intel/fce/10.1.013/bin/ifort" > >>> \ FFLAGS="-O3 -no-prec-div -unroll" \ > >>> CXX="/N/soft/linux-rhel4-x86_64/intel/cce/10.1.013/bin/icpc" > >>> \ CXXFLAGS="-O3 -no-prec-div -unroll" \ > >>> FC="/N/soft/linux-rhel4-x86_64/intel/fce/10.1.013/bin/ifort" > >>> \ FCFLAGS="-O3 -no-prec-div -unroll" \ > >>> OBJC="/N/soft/linux-rhel4-x86_64/intel/cce/10.1.013/bin/icc" > >>> \ OBJCFLAGS="-O3 -no-prec-div -unroll" \ > >>> --disable-R-profiling --disable-memory-profiling > >>> ## > >>> make all make install > >>> > >>> Mark > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Mark W. 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