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Revision: 546
          http://assorted.svn.sourceforge.net/assorted/?rev=546&view=rev
Author:   yangzhang
Date:     2008-02-29 08:34:24 -0800 (Fri, 29 Feb 2008)

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updates to analysis

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Modified: numa-bench/trunk/doc/analysis.txt
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--- numa-bench/trunk/doc/analysis.txt	2008-02-29 16:34:11 UTC (rev 545)
+++ numa-bench/trunk/doc/analysis.txt	2008-02-29 16:34:24 UTC (rev 546)
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 % NUMA Benchmarks Analysis
 % Yang Zhang
 
-The [graphs](graphs) show the results of running several different experiments. The
-results are averaged across three trials for each experiment. The experiments
-varied the following parameters:
+All tests were performed on `josmp.csail.mit.edu`.  The [graphs](graphs) show
+the results of running several different experiments. The results are averaged
+across three trials for each experiment. The experiments varied the following
+parameters:
 
 - number of threads (CPUs, 1-16, usually 16 if not testing scalability)
 - size of the memory buffer to operate on (10MB, 100MB, or 1GB)
@@ -15,6 +16,9 @@
   ourselves) or on buffers that all other nodes allocated (for
   cross-communication)
 - whether to perform writes to the buffer, otherwise just read
+- in experiments varying the number of cores $k$ working concurrently: whether
+  we're using cores 1 through $k$ or cores across the nodes in round-robin
+  fashion
 
 Here are some questions these results help answer:
 
@@ -66,5 +70,3 @@
 the experiments varying the number of cores all exercise the fewest number of
 chips; the results may be quite different for tests that distribute the loaded
 cores across all chips.
-
-*Update*: all tests were performed on josmp.csail.mit.edu.


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