Parallelized implementation

Asked by Alvin

Hi, I would like to know if there is a limited of cpus when parallelized implementation, and so on the number of balls generated.

Thanks in advance, Alvin

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Anton Gladky (gladky-anton) said :
#1

Hi Alvin,

could you, please, be more specific? You want to know how many
particles can be in one simulation?

Anton

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Alvin
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> New question #165997 on Yade:
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> Hi, I would like to know if there is a limited of cpus when parallelized implementation, and so on the number of balls generated.
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> Thanks in advance, Alvin
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Alvin (lyj5300625) said :
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Hi Anton,
 you got what i mean. I want to know how many particles can be simulated in
one test, and how many cpus of the computer can be called in one simulation.
Is there a limitaton for that? I mean the capacity of YADE in simulation.

Alvin

2011/7/27 Anton Gladky <email address hidden>

> Your question #165997 on Yade changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/165997
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> Status: Open => Answered
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> Anton Gladky proposed the following answer:
> Hi Alvin,
>
> could you, please, be more specific? You want to know how many
> particles can be in one simulation?
>
> Anton
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Alvin
> <email address hidden> wrote:
> > New question #165997 on Yade:
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/165997
> >
> > Hi, I would like to know if there is a limited of cpus when parallelized
> implementation, and so on the number of balls generated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance, Alvin
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Anton Gladky (gladky-anton) said :
#3

Yade is paralleled with OpenMP, but the number of particles is
__very__ dependent on your simulation, how many contacts you have, how
"dynamic" is your simulation etc.
I am using 6x-core CPU for some tests. Roughly - 5*10^5 particles is,
probably, the upper border.
But again: it can be sufficiently more or less.

Anton

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Alvin (lyj5300625) said :
#4

Thank you! Anton, I got it!

2011/7/27 Anton Gladky <email address hidden>

> Question #165997 on Yade changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/165997
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Anton Gladky proposed the following answer:
> Yade is paralleled with OpenMP, but the number of particles is
> __very__ dependent on your simulation, how many contacts you have, how
> "dynamic" is your simulation etc.
> I am using 6x-core CPU for some tests. Roughly - 5*10^5 particles is,
> probably, the upper border.
> But again: it can be sufficiently more or less.
>
> Anton
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Best Bruno Chareyre (bruno-chareyre) said :
#5

Actually, the maximum number of particles only depends on you RAM memory
(well, you could also swap...). It is independant on parallelization.
I remember that my PFC2D simulations (almost 10 years ago...) needed to
specify an allocated RAM of 8Mo via a DOS command, in order to simulate
more than 10k particles. Else it wouldn't fit.

With modern RAM capacities, I guess you can reach 10 millions easily in
Yade. If your simulation needs 10 time steps, that's ok. If it needs
more that 100k, it will be a little long...

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Alvin (lyj5300625) said :
#6

Thanks Chareyre, that solved my question.