Timers Tuning

Description of timers for tuning

Timing commands

time command options

this command returns the real, user, and system time by executing a command or program. By defualt  time has an accuracy of miliseconds.  Advanced option are well described in the corresponding man and info page.

date options

Prints and sets  the system time and date. You could use as marker since it returns the date and time in human readable format.  As in the previous case, the advances options are described in the corresponding man and info page.    

Timing Functions

Sometimes you are interested in measuring the time from a particular point to another particular point. This can be useful to time a specific function or lines of your code. Normally  this also requires to add few lines in your code and to link with an external library. Some are standar functions found in the MPI and OpenMP library, which ensures portability. Other calls might not be used on other systems outside from LRZ.

The name and the location of some routines and functions are described in the table below:

Routine Module, library and/or
link options
Description Approx. accuracy  Multi-
threaded programs
Accurate timers:
mpi_wtime() -lmpi wall clock time 1 µs  yes
omp_get_wtime -openmp wall clock time 1 µs  yes
Real (kind=8) function DWALLTIME()
double dwalltime(
module load lrztools
$LIBLRZ_LIB
$LIBLRZ_INC
wall clock time 1 µs  yes
int clock_getres
int clock_gettime
#include time.h system_wide real time clock 1 µs  yes
unsigned long int get_cycles()
Integer(kind=8) GET_CYCLES()
module load lrztools
$LIBLRZ_LIB
$LIBLRZ_INC
This function returns the processor cycle counter. The cycle counter is free running and unsynchronized on each processor. Thus, the order of events cannot determined by comparing the results of the get_cycles function on different processors. 50 cycles yes
Standard timers:
CPU_TIME intrinsics Returns the processor time in seconds.    
DATE intrinsics Returns the ASCII representation of the current date (in dd-mmm-yy form).    
DATE_AND_TIME intrinsics Returns the date and time. This is the preferred procedure for date and time.    
IDATE intrinsics Returns three integer values representing the current month, day, and year.    
SYSTEM_CLOCK intrinsics Returns data from the system clock.    
TIME intrinsics Returns the ASCII representation of the current time (in hh:mm:ss form).    
Real (kind=8) function DCPUTIME()
double dwalltime()
module load lrztools
$LIBLRZ_LIB
$LIBLRZ_INC
CPU time 1 ms yes
real(kind=4) array(2)
real(kind=4) function ETIME (array) 
 
 USE IFPORT On single processor systems, returns the elapsed CPU time, in seconds, of the process that calls it. On multi-core or multi-processor systems, returns the elapsed wall-clock time, in seconds 1 ms

yes

REAL(Kind=4) function TIMEF()  USE IFPORT wall clock time 1 ms no ?