Monday, April 27, 2009

More results

I spent some of the weekend benchmarking the serial application.
I've taken three functions from it as part of the benchmarking:
  • Time spent traversing BSP nodes
  • Time spent processing object to bound collisions
  • Time spent processing object to object collisions
  • Total time the application spent in the actual program module (and not in some back end dll)

Because I had to estimate run times for all tests I'll have to convert all of the values to % of total run time and then average them.

For the parallel app:

  • Time spent in the parallel_for
  • Time spent layering to the hash table
  • Time spent reading back
  • Total time the application spent in the program module

Vtune is verrrrrry nice and all that but not being able to cut of a call graph test after a certain amount of time is annoying.

Apart from that I have all serial metrics and currently I'm finishing up taking the parallel ones (using 10 objects over a range in the hash table, gives a test time of ~5 mins instead of 5hrs ).

This week I need to finish:

  • Presentation
  • Methodology

I need to make a better start on:

  • Results
  • Introduction

Needs a conclusion:

  • Lit review

Final pass after all other documentation is finished:

  • References
  • Anything not referenced becomes a bibliography entry
  • Figure list
  • Formula list

Late on Friday I quickly sketched up most of an abstract which can be touched up later.

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