DRAG: Data analysis benchmaRking packAGe

Sources

drag-1.2.tar.gz
cvs archive

Binaries

dragfft-1.2-i686-pc-linux-gnu-static

Instructions

Executive summary

./configure [--with-cc=CC] [--with-extra-cppflags=CPPFLAGS]
            [--with-extra-cflags=CFLAGS] [--with-extra-ldflags=LDFLAGS]
            [--enable-tcptest] [--disable-ffttest]
make
make check

Detailed instructions

• Download and install fftw 

rm -f ./config.cache
make clean
rm -rf /path/to/my-fftw-install
mkdir /path/to/my-fftw-install
./configure --with-cc=cc --enable-float --prefix=/path/to/my-fftw-install
make
make install

• A few comments
• The prefix is to a directory (/my-fftw-install) that you have created, which is where the header files and the libraries for your fftw build will be installed.  The contents are the result of the make install.
• If you have succeeded, the directory /path/to/my-fftw-install should contain /info, /lib, and /include directories, and the /lib and /include should contain files. The time-stamps (dates!) on these files should correpond to the time that you did the build.
• If you get strange results using make, try using the GNU version of make.  This might be called gmake, for example. If you can't find the GNU version, you can download it from the GNU web site and install it locally in your own directory.
• You may want to change cc above to the name of some other compiler, for example gcc or ccc. You want to use whatever compiler will produce the fastest possible code for the machine that you are testing!
• Whenever you try rebuilding, be sure to remove config.cache and to do a make clean, to be restarting from zero.
• Download drag
• From a tarball: extract using

tar zxvf drag-version.tar.gz
cd drag-version

Note that a non-GNU version of the tar command may not understand the z option. In this case you can unzip the file by hand, or download and install the GNU version of tar. This may be called gtar on your system.
• From the medusa cvs repository (the password is medusa):

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@gravity.phys.uwm.edu:/usr/local/cvs/medusa login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@gravity.phys.uwm.edu:/usr/local/cvs/medusa checkout drag
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@gravity.phys.uwm.edu:/usr/local/cvs/medusa logoff
cd drag
./00boot.sh

• Configure drag


rm -f ./config.cache
make clean       (you may need to use gmake as above for fftw)
./configure
for example
rm -f ./config.cache
make clean
./configure --with-cc=cc --with-extra-cppflags=-I/path/to/my-fftw-install/include/ --with-extra-libs=-L/path/to/my-fftw-install/lib/
(Note: this is all a single line -- if your browser wraps it, be sure to actually type it as a single line).
Configure options:

--with-cc=cc

specify cc as the C compiler

--with-extra-cppflags=cppflags

use the additional cppflags C preprocessor flags

--with-extra-cflags=cflags

use the additional cflags C compiler flags

--with-extra-ldflags=ldflags

use the additional ldflags linker flags

--with-extra-libs=libs

use the additional libs -L or -l library flags

--with-gcc-flags

turn on strict gcc warning flags

--enable-tcptest

enable the tcp testing suite

--disable-ffttest

disable the fft testing suite

• Make drag

make (you may need to use gmake).
If this fails and you just want the fft tests:
cd src/
make dragfft
./dragfft

• Drag
make check
This will run the basic fft tests. The tcp test suite is currently deactivated at present. However you can manually run the tcp test suite as follows:

cd src
./dragtcp.sh 129.89.57.142

where 129.89.57.142 is the IP address of the remote machine. In order for this test to work, drag must be installed on the remote machine with the same absolute path as on the local machine and you must be able to rsh onto the remote machine without typing a password.
• Examine results

The results are in the src directory. They are the .out files.

cd /usr/local/src
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@gravity.phys.uwm.edu:/usr/local/cvs/medusa login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@gravity.phys.uwm.edu:/usr/local/cvs/medusa checkout drag
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@gravity.phys.uwm.edu:/usr/local/cvs/medusa logoff
cd drag
./00boot.sh
./configure --with-cc=ccc --with-extra-cppflags=-I/usr/local/fftw-ccc/include   --with-extra-cflags=-fast --with-extra-libs=-L/usr/local/fftw-ccc/lib
make
make check
cd src
./dragtcp.sh 129.89.57.97
ls *.out

Analysis of DragFFT and DragTCP CPU Load

This section shows results of running top to analyze the CPU load of dragfft and dragtcp (both from drag-1.3) running at the same time. Other processes were running at the same time, but were of minor impact.

Running dragfft (via make check) and dragtcp -l:
dragfftw average load: 81%
dragtcp average load: 17%

Running dragfft (via make check) and dragtcp -r:
dragfftw average load: 69%
dragtcp average load: 29%

Inspiral & Power Benchmark

Sources

inspiral-benchmark.tar.gz
power-benchmark.tar.gz

Instructions

To run both the inspiral-benchmark & power-benchmark first copy then decompress them in a location which can be mounted by the computer you are testing. Then use the time command to run the script and once it has completed record the time.