Problems with Fortran compiler on Darwin and othe bench stuff...

Today I had problems with compiling the Cactus benchmark on a Darwin machine.

Something useful I found on the CactusCode Developer's list:
http://www.cactuscode.org/pipermail/users/2005-March/001391.html

-off-topic:Someone sent me today this link:
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2006152711228.gif

Here I have my final gnuplot script:

#This script contains the commands to generate the plot for the BSSN_PUGH benchmark results.

#This is the dataset we used and which goes in BSSN_PUGH_100l.dat
#machine wall time #processors
#Bassi_sp 567.268 1
#numrel02 728.128 1
#catbert 853.416 1
#xws2 965.440 1
#santaka 1140.422 1
#helix2 1436.51 1


#Set the range for the axes
set xrange [-0.5:6]
set yrange [0:1500]

#Set the width of the boxes for the histogram
set boxwidth 0.15 absolute
set style fill solid 1.00 border -1

#Set the labels on the x axis and rotate them
set xtics ("Bassi" 0.00000, "numrel02" 1.0000, "catbert" 2.00000, "xws2" 3.00000, "santaka" 4.00000, "helix2" 5.00000)
#set xtics rotate by -45
plot "BSSN_PUGH_100l.dat" u :2 w boxes

#Set the title and the axes labels
set title "Wall Time Comparison for Different Machines"
set ylabel "Wall Time in Seconds"
set xlabel "Machine and Architecture"

#Plot the graph and save the output to a file
plot "BSSN_PUGH_100l.dat" u :2 w boxes
set terminal png color small
set output "BSSN_PUGH_100l.png"
plot "BSSN_PUGH_100l.dat" u :2 w boxes


...I finished the Presentation web page. Now it looks really nice. I uploaded the .bib, -bib.html and the .html files.
Here is the link... but I don't know if it's working for those that don't have an account:
http://www.cactuscode.org/Documentation/Presentations/

I also made the News item that I owed to Gab and Tom Goodale about the BSSN_PUGH scaling on BGW.
http://www.cactuscode.org/News/bssnpughonbgw
For this I had an Excel file and (Excel) graph, but I wrote a gnuplot script for this too, to plot the scaling results.

Today I also cleaned the KrancLatex CVS. It took me more than one hour... but I'm done for this year ... or at least for this payperiod.

Things to do:
-ask Peter or Yaakoub or the cactusmain group about Nemeaux and/or greengrass
-find if there is any repository for Presentations, if not create one
-convert the sdd into pdf
-eventually upload the ppts and the sdds.
-figure out how to label with bullets instead of numbers
-do the same things for Bench_whisky_Carpet, as for Bench_BSSN_PUGH

Working with bibtex

Yesterday I learnt how to modify a bibtex style file bst. I didn't change much; I just made the title in italics.
Here is the portion of code that does this:


FUNCTION {format.title}
{ title empty$
{ "" }
{ title "t" change.case$ emphasize}
if$
}


The commands for creating the html file are in my case:

-to sort the entries by year and reverse them:
./bib2bib -r -s year Presentations.bib > Presentations1.bib

-to create the html files:
./bibtex2html -style plain.bst Presentations1.bib

An entry in the Presentations.bib looks like this:

@INPROCEEDINGS{CactusPresentations_Allen01b,
author = {Gabrielle Allen},
title = {{Numerical Relativity with Cactus}},
urlpdf = {http://www.cactuscode.org/Documentation/presentations/gr16July01.pdf
},
note = {Description: Numerical Relativity Workshop, Satellite Meeting of GR16
- Johannesberg, South Africa},
month = {July},
year = {2001}
}


I tried to find a way to have the entries labeled with bullets instead of numbers for the html, but I didn't find anything yet. :(

Yesterday I partially finished running the benchmark. ( I still couldn't get my hands on igertws09 and I couldn't compile the Bench_BSSN_PUGH on Nemeaux or greengrass - arch=Darwin.) In the same time with the runnings I wrote the .bib file and convert the ppts to pdfs. There were some presentations on sdd format and I was told that these could be opened with OpenOffice. Now, the presentation web page looks reasonable. Eventually I would have to delimitate the entries by year with a line - this was the suggestion I received; this would make the page looks nice, but having bullets instead of numbers would make it nicer.

Useful Unix commands

uname -a --prints all system information

cat /proc/cpuinfo -- tells the processor type, the clockspeed, etc for each processor

top -- shows the top jobs running on the machine

Who says it's not easy to create a PC-Mac network?

Yesterday I made my first small home-network: my Mac connects to Internet through a PC with a wireless card. I did not have a router, but only two computers, a USB cable and a wireless card. I had to install the wireless card, connect the computers and create a bridge connection between the two. Finally, I had to allow the dial-up connection to share the internet via wireless.
It was fun reading about networks and setting up computers. :)
Who could have ever imagined that I would have to do this on my first day of Christmas break... after 22 hours of flight?...

histograms in gnuplot

These days I'm doing benchmarking stuff.
Here are a few commands to generate histograms with gnuplot:

set xrange [-0.5:4]
set yrange [0:1100]
set boxwidth 0.5 absolute
set style fill solid 1.00 border -1
set xtics ("Bassi(SP P5-575 1.9Ghz)" 0.00000, "Bassi(DP P5-575 1.9Ghz)" 1.0000,
"Loni(P5-575 1.9Ghz)" 2.00000, "Supermike(Intel Xeon 3.06Ghz)" 3.00000)
set title "Wall Time Comparison for Different Machines"
set ylabel "Wall Time in Seconds"
set xlabel "Machine and Architecture"
plot "BSSN_PUGH_100l.dat" u :2 w boxes
plot "BSSN_PUGH_100l.dat" u :2 w boxes
set terminal postscript
set output "BSSN_PUGH_100l.eps"
plot "BSSN_PUGH_100l.dat" u :2 w boxes


Facts I "discovered" today:
-gnuplot's postscript terminal does not have the option of changing the page size.
-gnuplot writes the entire .eps file from scratch

What's this all about?

Hi there!

This is my first entry in a blog that is supposed to describe my CCT work. I just hope that I can make time to write on it.
It will be only for my personal reference. This last summer I had an internship at LBL and those guys asked me to have a web-page with the projects I was working on. At the end, when I had to give two presentations it was really helpful. There were lots of details I wrote down at the time I was writing the pages and that I wouldn't have remember otherwise.

More, I think it's good to have something you can come back to at the end of the week and see what your progress of that week was.

I wish y'all the best,
Elena