[kepler-dev] Re: [Ptolemy] largest number of actors in a Ptolemy II model

Thu Aug 5 15:33:51 PDT 2004

Well, I hacked up actor/lib/test/Ramp.tcl to create

Ramp -> Scale0 -> ScaleN ... -> Recorder models

Below are the run times on a Dell Precision 650 with 4Gb of memory and
two 3.06Ghz CPUs running Linux

For each test, I created N+1 Scale actors

I report the time in microseconds that ptjacl reports the model
creation took.  Ignore the 'per iteration to create', this
comes from the ptjacl time command.  In the first example,
it took 21000 microseconds or 21 milliseconds to create the 
5 actor model

Each model is a sdf model run for 5 iterations.
Then I run the model 4 times to take advantage of the JIT.

5 actors
21000 microseconds per iteration to create
29 ms. Memory: 1984K Free: 895K (45%)
17 ms. Memory: 1984K Free: 715K (36%)
15 ms. Memory: 1984K Free: 537K (27%)
13 ms. Memory: 1984K Free: 866K (44%)

50 actors
136000 microseconds per iteration to create
136 ms. Memory: 1984K Free: 439K (22%)
108 ms. Memory: 2340K Free: 841K (36%)
73 ms. Memory: 2340K Free: 931K (40%)
69 ms. Memory: 2340K Free: 611K (26%)

500 actors
7825000 microseconds per iteration to create
849 ms. Memory: 6648K Free: 2031K (31%)
517 ms. Memory: 8504K Free: 3614K (42%)
405 ms. Memory: 8504K Free: 1696K (20%)
466 ms. Memory: 8504K Free: 2668K (31%)

750 actors
35645000 microseconds per iteration to create
1035 ms. Memory: 11180K Free: 1467K (13%)
703 ms. Memory: 13420K Free: 3248K (24%)
696 ms. Memory: 16872K Free: 6560K (39%)
598 ms. Memory: 16872K Free: 4178K (25%)

1000 actors
117586000 microseconds per iteration to create
1263 ms. Memory: 19480K Free: 3484K (18%)
952 ms. Memory: 25160K Free: 9982K (40%)
807 ms. Memory: 25160K Free: 6203K (25%)
807 ms. Memory: 25160K Free: 878K (3%)

The model creation time is rather poor:

21000/5      =     4200 microseconds/actor
135000/50    =     2700 microseconds/actor
7863000/500  =    15726 microseconds/actor
35645000/750 =    47526 microseconds/actor
117586000/1000 = 117586 microseconds/actor

Perhaps the increase in time was because ptjacl is not very good at
loops.

Exporting the 500 actor model as moml and
then running it using MoMLSimpleApplication:

time $PTII/bin/ptinvoke ptolemy.actor.gui.MoMLSimpleApplication 500.xml

yields the following results:

820 ms. Memory: 6080K Free: 1925K (32%)
2.690u 0.070s 0:03.34 82.6%     0+0k 0+0io 2985pf+0w

This is a 3.34 second total runtime to parse a 500 actor model
and then run it.  This is reasonably close to the 7.825 seconds 
necessary to create the model under ptjacl.

I hacked up a 1000 actor model by splicing two 500 actor models
together, and it took 6.29 seconds to open and run, so this is not too
bad, it is quite a bit better than the 117 seconds reported by ptjacl.
I'm not totally sure about my 1000 actor model, more work could be
done here.

It would be interesting to check this by trying something with 
higher order components.

The runtimes do not look so bad though.  The are roughly 0(N)

We can now claim that a model with 1000 actors has been run.

You can download my 500 actor model from:
http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cxh/tmp/models/500.xml

Opening it in Vergil is a little painful, but it works

-Christopher

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    Steve beat me to it, but here are my thoughts:

    Well, to paraphrase Mark Twain, who attributed the quote to Disraeli:
    "There are lies, damn lies and Ptolemy statistics"

    As a quick hack, I counted the number of "<entity" strings in some
    models.  This is not a perfect measure, but it is a start.

    It looks like one of the models that we do not distribute has 711
    entities.  The counts for that model and others are below:

     711 ./ptolemy/domains/wireless/demo/MACProtocolModel/MACProtocolModel.xml
     276 ./ptolemy/domains/gr/lib/experimental/demo/InverseKinematics/InverseKi
   nematics.xml
     196 ./ptolemy/domains/gr/lib/experimental/demo/pickstates/pickstates.xml
     175 ./ptolemy/domains/gr/lib/experimental/IKsimple.xml
     148 ./ptolemy/domains/gr/lib/experimental/demo/RobotArm/RobotArm.xml
     135 ./ptolemy/domains/gr/lib/experimental/lynxArm.xml
     120 ./ptolemy/domains/gr/lib/experimental/demo/microwave/microwave.xml

    We don't distribute the models above in the release, but the models
    below are shipped:

     102 ./ptolemy/domains/gr/demo/StickyMasses/StickyMasses.xml
     100 ./ptolemy/domains/gr/demo/FurutaPendulum/FurutaPendulum.xml
      96 ./ptolemy/domains/hde/test/auto/SOC_Sobel_FSM_HDE.xml

    ptolemy/apps has some largish models as well:
     571 ptolemy/apps/etherealSting/E2/classifierNchannels.xml
     570 ptolemy/apps/etherealSting/E2/classifierNchannelsWithOutput.xml
     565 ptolemy/apps/etherealSting/E2/classifierNchannelsNoPlots.xml
     348 ptolemy/apps/anytimecontrol/CompareControllers.xml
     236 ptolemy/apps/crazyboard/crazyboardModelLQRGiotto.xml
     229 ptolemy/apps/crazyboard/crazyboardModelDE4.xml
     228 ptolemy/apps/crazyboard/crazyboardModelModalLQR.xml
     224 ptolemy/apps/crazyboard/crazyboardModelLQRWithGraphicImage.xml
     223 ptolemy/apps/crazyboard/crazyboardModelLQRWithGraphics.xml
     221 ptolemy/apps/crazyboard/crazyboardModelLQR.xml

    To get these numbers, I used
    find . -xdev -name "*.xml" -exec ls -s {} \; > /tmp/f2
    grep "<entity" `awk '{print $2}' /tmp/f2` | gawk -F : '{print $1}' > /tmp/e
   ntity2
    uniq -c /tmp/entity2 | sort -nr | head

    The number of actors could get a little strange when we consider
    classes and such.  

    I think it would be fairly straightforward to automatically construct
    large trivial models that used lots of actors using 
    Ramp -> Scale -> Scale ... ->Display
    However, I'm not sure what such a model would prove, since it is an
    artificial measurement.

    I seem to remember that this paper:
    Jozsef Ludvig, James McCarthy, Stephen Neuendorffer, and Sonia
    R. Sachs, "Reprogrammable Platforms for High-speed Data Acquisition,"
    Thirty-Fifth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers,
    Asilomar Hotel Conference Grounds, November 4-7, 2001.
    http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/publications/papers/01/Asilomar/
    had some really big models.

    I've seen models of around 2Mb in size, though this was before the
    class mechanism was implemented, so the size would likely be smaller
    now.

    -Christopher

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        Hi:

        Can anyone give me an estimate about the largest model (#actors) in a
        Ptolemy II model that has been done? (maybe with reference)

        thanks!

        Bertram
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