Application Performance Snapshot User Guide for Linux* OS

ID 772048
Date 10/31/2024
Public

Data Transfers per Rank-to-Rank Communication

Key:-x [--transfers-per-communication]

This charts provides information about each rank-to-rank communication. This information can be useful for detecting imbalance in network usage.

Example

| Data Transfers per Rank-to-Rank Communication
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Rank --> Rank           Time(sec)        Time(%)      Volume(MB)        Volume(%)        Transfers
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  0003 --> 0000            14.30            10.21          8835.73             7.33           370654
  0002 --> 0003            14.15            10.10          8835.73             7.33           370622
  0003 --> 0002            14.04            10.02          8142.73             6.75           336057
  0003 --> 0001            14.02            10.01          7449.73             6.18           301492
  0002 --> 0001            13.92             9.93          8142.73             6.75           336057
  0002 --> 0000            13.89             9.91          7449.73             6.18           301524
  0000 --> 0001            11.61             8.29         19577.18            16.24           847663
  0001 --> 0000            11.39             8.13         17498.20            14.51           809130
  0001 --> 0002             8.41             6.00          8835.72             7.33           370622
  0001 --> 0003             8.14             5.81          7449.73             6.18           301492
  0000 --> 0003             8.13             5.80          9528.71             7.90           337679
  0000 --> 0002             8.10             5.78          8835.72             7.33           303114
|===================================================================================================
| TOTAL                   140.11           100.00        120581.65           100.00          4986106
| AVG                      11.68             8.33         10048.47             8.33           415508

Chart Entries

Columns

Rank <-> Rank

Numbers of communicating ranks

Time (sec)

Communication time between ranks

Time (%)

Percent of total time spent in communication

Volume(MB)

Amount of data transferred in the communication (in megabytes)

Volume(%)

Percentage of amount of data transferred in the communication

Transfers

Number of messages in the communication

Rows

TOTAL

Total values for all columns

AVG

Average values for all columns. The values are calculated as follows: AVG = TOTAL / [(N*N + N)/2], where N is the number of ranks

Graphic Representation

To generate a graphic representation of rank-to-rank communication, use --format=html. For example:

aps-report -x --format=html <result name>

Example

By default, the diagram is generated by communication time. If you need to have communication by volume, add the -v option for the graphic report generation.

You can also use the -X <N> option to specify the size of the diagram. For a given N, the diagram is displayed as a square with the size N by N.