Re: [eigen] patch to add ACML support to BTL

[Rohit Garg <rpg.314@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for that. After looking at these benches, I was thinking that
perhaps Eigen has become quite slower with new versions!!

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Gael Guennebaud
<gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Rohit Garg <rpg.314@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I think that with new library versions, new eigen versions, and new
>> gcc we should put these results on the main benchmark page of eigen
>> website. BTW I think the eigen's performance has slipped considerably
>> when I look at your Pentium D benchmarks, or it's all attributable to
>> core2 being a much better cpu?
>
> thanks for the benchs,
>
> core2 is indeed much better than a Pentium D, and since I only have a
> core2, the critical parts (matrix-matrix products) are only fine tuned
> for the core2. Another reason is that gcc 4.3 generates slower code
> than 4.2: some constant expressions are not removed out the inner
> loops, it is not optimal with block expressions, and by default 4.3
> automatically generates vectorized code which conflicts with Eigen's
> automatic vectorization. 4.4 do not suffer from all these issues, and
> sometimes, gcc 4.4 auto-vec is even better than Eigen's explicit one
> because it better understands what it is doing: an example is rank-2
> update which simply consists in a series "v += ax + by" ops. But
> Eigen's explicit vec is still worth it because we are able to
> vectorize much more cases than gcc. Examples: "v = ax + by" is not
> vectorized by gcc, matrix products, vectorization + explicit
> unrolling, in the future sin, cos, pow, exp, etc.
>
> gael
>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Victor <flyaway1212@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi all.
>>> It sure took a while to run all the benchmarks with all the libraries
>>> available to me... I wish I had read the instructions more carefully and
>>> hadn't wasted any time testing multithreaded libraries...
>>> Anyways, the results are on the wiki:
>>> http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Benchmark_AMD_Intel_compare
>>>
>>> Gael Guennebaud wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Victor,
>>>>
>>>> thanks a lot for the patch.
>>>> applied in rev 935462, the syr2 header will follow in a second.
>>>>
>>>> so what's your conclusion, is ACML as good as MKL ?
>>> Unfortunately, no. ACML is not bad though. It's hard to say once and for
>>> all, but most of the time MKL beats ACML. Even on an AMD CPU MKL is
>>> typically better. ACML shows decent performance (even on Intel CPU), on
>>> average similar to ATLAS, but again results differ from test to test.
>>> The good thing about ACML (and MKL, Goto and ATLAS) is that they can be
>>> used in multithreading mode, which unfortunately can't be demonstrated
>>> with BTL as far as I can tell.
>>>
>>> Also, it looks like in comparison with other libs Eigen does better on
>>> Intel than on AMD.
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity, I have also run BTL with Eigen compiled with 4
>>> different compilers. Well, 3 different gcc versions and intel c++. See
>>> the results here
>>> http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Eigen2_benchmark_Intel
>>>
>>> I hope this might be useful to somebody.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Victor.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Rohit Garg
>>
>> http://rpg-314.blogspot.com/
>>
>> Senior Undergraduate
>> Department of Physics
>> Indian Institute of Technology
>> Bombay
>>
>>
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-- 
Rohit Garg

http://rpg-314.blogspot.com/

Senior Undergraduate
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay