Open lxwgcool opened 2 years ago
Job 4282558 (BWA_CPU_52) Complete
User = lix33
Queue = [bigmem.q@node137.cm.cluster](mailto:bigmem.q@node137.cm.cluster)
Host = node137.cm.cluster
Start Time = 08/17/2022 13:05:56
End Time = 08/17/2022 17:03:04
User Time = 8:09:45:53
System Time = 00:16:03
Wallclock Time = 03:57:08
CPU = 8:10:01:57
Max vmem = 15.349G
Exit Status = 0
Job 4282559 (BWA_CPU_48) Complete
User = lix33
Queue = [bigmem.q@node138.cm.cluster](mailto:bigmem.q@node138.cm.cluster)
Host = node138.cm.cluster
Start Time = 08/17/2022 13:06:11
End Time = 08/17/2022 17:20:25
User Time = 8:08:07:33
System Time = 00:15:28
Wallclock Time = 04:14:14
CPU = 8:08:23:02
Max vmem = 14.579G
Exit Status = 0
User = lix33 Queue = bigmem.q@node139.cm.cluster Host = node139.cm.cluster Start Time = 08/17/2022 13:06:26 End Time = 08/17/2022 19:18:31 User Time = 8:04:24:08 System Time = 00:14:16 Wallclock Time = 06:12:05 CPU = 8:04:38:24 Max vmem = 11.765G Exit Status = 0
User = lix33 Queue = bigmem.q@node140.cm.cluster Host = node140.cm.cluster Start Time = 08/17/2022 13:06:41 End Time = 08/17/2022 21:32:41 User Time = 8:08:41:29 System Time = 00:14:23 Wallclock Time = 08:26:00 CPU = 8:08:55:52 Max vmem = 10.427G Exit Status = 0
User = lix33 Queue = bigmem.q@node141.cm.cluster Host = node141.cm.cluster Start Time = 08/17/2022 13:06:56 End Time = 08/18/2022 00:54:35 User Time = 7:20:15:46 System Time = 00:18:29 Wallclock Time = 11:47:39 CPU = 7:20:34:16 Max vmem = 8.936G Exit Status = 0
We can see, the running time from 32 CPU takes significant longer time than 48 CPU and 52 CPU. The memory usage for all testing cases is not a big issue for us, since our server can easily handle such consumption.
Therefore, the comparison provided by NVIDIA is not true at least for our cases.
In order to check the relationship between the number of cores and the performance of BWA (NVIDIA’s comparison does not make sense for me), I have launched 5 different jobs for comparison. These jobs are using 16, 24, 32, 48, 52 cores respectively.
Here is the output dir: /scratch/lix33/Data/BWA/0.7.17/Performance_Test
Here is the job script dir: /scratch/lix33/Data/BWA/Script/Performance_Comparison
The job details are below: