diff --git a/doc/doc2/Section_start.html b/doc/doc2/Section_start.html index de3e1e86ed..bf35e857a5 100644 --- a/doc/doc2/Section_start.html +++ b/doc/doc2/Section_start.html @@ -1753,9 +1753,10 @@ thermodynamic state and a total run time for the simulation. It then appends statistics about the CPU time and storage requirements for the simulation. An example set of statistics is shown here:

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Loop time of 2.81192 on 4 procs for 300 steps with 2004 atoms
-97.0% CPU use with 4 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads
-Performance: 18.436 ns/day  1.302 hours/ns  106.689 timesteps/s 
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Loop time of 2.81192 on 4 procs for 300 steps with 2004 atoms +

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Performance: 18.436 ns/day  1.302 hours/ns  106.689 timesteps/s
+97.0% CPU use with 4 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads 
 
MPI task timings breakdown:
 Section |  min time  |  avg time  |  max time  |%varavg| %total
@@ -1783,16 +1784,16 @@ Neighbor list builds = 26
 Dangerous builds = 0 
 

The first section provides a global loop timing summary. The loop time -is the total wall time for the section. The second line provides the -CPU utilzation per MPI task; it should be close to 100% times the number -of OpenMP threads (or 1). Lower numbers correspond to delays due to -file i/o or unsufficient thread utilization. The Performance line is +is the total wall time for the section. The Performance line is provided for convenience to help predicting the number of loop -continuations required and for comparing performance with other similar -MD codes. +continuations required and for comparing performance with other +similar MD codes. The CPU use line provides the CPU utilzation per +MPI task; it should be close to 100% times the number of OpenMP +threads (or 1). Lower numbers correspond to delays due to file I/O or +insufficient thread utilization.

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The second section gives the breakdown of the CPU run time (in seconds) -into major categories: +

The MPI task section gives the breakdown of the CPU run time (in +seconds) into major categories: