VTune time doesn't match program time

1024chickens — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:31:19 GMT

Hi,

I used VTune to profile a MPI+OpenMP program running on a Xeon Phi processor (native mode) . However, I noticed there is discrepancy between the VTune time and the time reported by my timer, as shown below. As you see, Vtune time (305.94) is about 3x bigger than the elapsed time (90.255). I also looked at reported VTune time for individual functions, which turned out to be even bigger than the time of the whole program (90.255 reported by my timer). I'm almost certain that the time reported by my timer is correct, so VTune somehow produces wrong results. This seems a consistent problem for other runs with different number of ranks and threads, where I noticed the time discrepancy could be between 100x-200x. I'd appreciate it if someone could offer some ideas on how this could happen (and how I might fix it)!

Thanks!

Yao

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Elapsed Time (by my timer): 90.255

Name Intel(R) Xeon(R) / Core i7 980X Processor

Frequency 1090000000

Logical CPU Count 244

CPU Time 305.954

Clockticks 333489600000.000

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