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stacked graphs with percentage times #33

Closed orbeckst closed 5 years ago

orbeckst commented 5 years ago

from https://github.com/scipy-conference/scipy_proceedings/pull/476 :

Scaling Study:

In addition to graphs of wall clock times, a chart with percentage breakdowns of task times could also help convey parallel scaling issues and initialization amortization issues. These issues are described well in the text, however I found myself wanting to try to convert the wall time plots into a stacked graph with percentages to see if I was parsing the words correctly.

I understand creating new graphs is a non-trivial ask -- I do think they would help, but again I don't think they are necessary for acceptance.

orbeckst commented 5 years ago

@VOD555 can you produce a stacked area plot or stacked bar plot of the time components in Fig 3 and Fig 4 and in Fig 6 and (not shown – the data in Fig 4 but for RDF) as a function of core numbers? We can probably focus on distributed+Lustre, 3 nodes only as this the most interesting case. But I would want to see 900 and 9000 frames. The scales have to be linear, otherwise the stacking cannot be visually compared in a meaningful way.

I'd like to see both absolute times and percentage of total – just to see which communicates the results more clearly.

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You might already have these plots, at least for absolute times.

orbeckst commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the plots. They look awesome. I'll add them to the draft.

I assume they are for distributed/3 nodes – is this correct?