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Using the Parallel Collider

Asked by Yuxuan Wang on 2021-03-23

Hi Yade programmers and users,

I have been trying to to shorten the run time of my code on a multi-CPU cluster. As I was going through past Q&A's on the forum, I noticed discussions about the parallel collider that was tested a while ago in [1] . However, I wasn't able to find out clearly the state of the parallel collider after those tests in 2012.

My questions are:

1. Has the parallel collider already been pushed into the trunk version? Or is there a separate version of Yade that I need to use the collider?

2. Are there any specific commands to call the collider or would yade -j suffice?

Thank you for helping me in advance!!

Best,
Yuxuan

[1]: https://yade-dem.org/wiki/Performance_Test

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Bruno Chareyre
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Best Bruno Chareyre (bruno-chareyre) said : #1

Hi,
1. it is in trunk
2. nothing specific

If you want to see how it works you can do this:
O.timing.enabled=True
O.run(N,True)
from yade import timing
timing.stats()

You will see how much is spent on each engine. Then if you run with different -j you will see how the different engines react to that.
Usually collider is only a few percent of the total.

Regards

Bruno

Yuxuan Wang (ywang1) said : #2

Thanks Bruno! That solved my question.