Abaqus Explicit SYSTEM TIME too high

hurd · November 1, 2022, 04:29

Dear forum Abaqus experts,

I have a strange problem and the support has no clue what's wrong either. I "just" wanted to borrow a colleague's ryzen 5600X machine for Abaqus/Explicit runs because our dedicated abaqus Xeon machine has become a bit dated (we are currently purchasing a new machine, see this thread in the hardware forum)

Normally these days I squeeze my jobs in on another colleague's ryzen 5950X workstation and I get speedups that are pretty sweet.

Now I thought with just 6 cores on my abaqus license the 5600X shouldn't be much slower, BUT it's severely underperforming. It needs massive amounts of SYSTEM TIME, which according to the manual is defined as follows:
* USER TIME refers to the CPU time spent executing Abaqus.
* SYSTEM TIME refers to the amount of OS kernel CPU time spent by the operating system doing work on behalf of the Abaqus process.

So in my quest to find the cause together with our support, I created a super small (10MB problem size) benchmark job and ran it with all three machines, and while I probably shouldn't even be bothering it's driving me nuts

.

HTML Code:

CPU            Xeon E5    Ryzen 9    Ryzen 5    Ryzen 5    Ryzen 5    Ryzen 5
                 2650 v2    5950X    5600X    5600X      5600X     5600X
OS             WIN10      WIN11    WIN10    WIN10     WIN10     WIN10
#cpus        cpus=6    cpus=6    cpus=6    cpus=4    cpus=2    cpus=1
USER TIME      944        389        484        537        876        1512
SYSTEM TIME  7            1          533        406        346        345
WALLCLOCK TIME 950     391      1017       944        1222      1858

Things I checked so far:

Hyperthreading is OFF - 6 cores / 6 threads on the 5600X machine
RAM is available / problem size is super small
disk is a SATA SSD, but output is only written at four points in the benchmark run

So finally I decided to post this here in case anybody has seen anything like it or has any hints to share.

hurd · November 1, 2022, 08:40

Ok, I found the solution myself. The WIN10 Ryzen 5 5600X "workstation" had an active "balanced" power plan

After switching to "high performance" the machine finally runs as expected - thank goodness!

I hope this will save someone in the future from the madness I went through

.

November 1, 2022, 04:29	Abaqus Explicit SYSTEM TIME too high	#1
hurd New Member Johann Join Date: Oct 2022 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 4	Dear forum Abaqus experts, I have a strange problem and the support has no clue what's wrong either. I "just" wanted to borrow a colleague's ryzen 5600X machine for Abaqus/Explicit runs because our dedicated abaqus Xeon machine has become a bit dated (we are currently purchasing a new machine, see this thread in the hardware forum) Normally these days I squeeze my jobs in on another colleague's ryzen 5950X workstation and I get speedups that are pretty sweet. Now I thought with just 6 cores on my abaqus license the 5600X shouldn't be much slower, BUT it's severely underperforming. It needs massive amounts of SYSTEM TIME, which according to the manual is defined as follows: * USER TIME refers to the CPU time spent executing Abaqus. * SYSTEM TIME refers to the amount of OS kernel CPU time spent by the operating system doing work on behalf of the Abaqus process. So in my quest to find the cause together with our support, I created a super small (10MB problem size) benchmark job and ran it with all three machines, and while I probably shouldn't even be bothering it's driving me nuts . HTML Code: CPU Xeon E5 Ryzen 9 Ryzen 5 Ryzen 5 Ryzen 5 Ryzen 5 2650 v2 5950X 5600X 5600X 5600X 5600X OS WIN10 WIN11 WIN10 WIN10 WIN10 WIN10 #cpus cpus=6 cpus=6 cpus=6 cpus=4 cpus=2 cpus=1 USER TIME 944 389 484 537 876 1512 SYSTEM TIME 7 1 533 406 346 345 WALLCLOCK TIME 950 391 1017 944 1222 1858 Things I checked so far: Hyperthreading is OFF - 6 cores / 6 threads on the 5600X machine RAM is available / problem size is super small disk is a SATA SSD, but output is only written at four points in the benchmark run So finally I decided to post this here in case anybody has seen anything like it or has any hints to share.

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November 1, 2022, 08:40		#2
hurd New Member Johann Join Date: Oct 2022 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 4	Ok, I found the solution myself. The WIN10 Ryzen 5 5600X "workstation" had an active "balanced" power plan After switching to "high performance" the machine finally runs as expected - thank goodness! I hope this will save someone in the future from the madness I went through .