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authorMarkus Wittmann <markus.wittmann@fau.de>
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:46:25 +0000 (15:46 +0100)
committerMarkus Wittmann <markus.wittmann@fau.de>
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:46:25 +0000 (15:46 +0100)
README
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-# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#
-# Copyright
-#   Markus Wittmann, 2016-2017
-#   RRZE, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
-#   markus.wittmann -at- fau.de or hpc -at- rrze.fau.de
-#
-#   Viktor Haag, 2016
-#   LSS, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
-#
-#  This file is part of the Lattice Boltzmann Benchmark Kernels (LbmBenchKernels).
-#
-#  LbmBenchKernels is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  LbmBenchKernels is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with LbmBenchKernels.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
-# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-# See licence of src/BoostJoin.h in the top of src/BoostJoin.h, which stems from
-# the boost projects and is licenced under the Boost licence.
-
-See doc subdirectory for a rudimentary documentation.
-
-This work was funded by BMBF, grant no. 01IH15003A (project SKAMPY)
-This work was funded by KONWHIR project OMI4PAPS
+Lattice Boltzmann Benchmark Kernels
+===================================
+
+Simple benchmark suite for LBM kernels and performance experiments from the HPC
+group of Erlangen Regional Computing Center (RRZE/HPC) [1] and the Chair for
+System Simulation of FAU (LSS) [2].
+
+See doc/main.rst or doc/html/main.html subdirectories for rudimentary
+documentation.
+
+
+
+LICENCE
+-------
+LBM benchmark kernels are licensed under GPLv3.
+
+See licence of src/BoostJoin.h in the top of src/BoostJoin.h, which stems from
+the boost projects and is licenced under the Boost licence.
+
+
+
+ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+----------------
+
+This work was funded by:
+
+  - BMBF, grant no. 01IH15003A (project SKAMPY)
+  - KONWHIR project OMI4PAPS
+
+
+[1] https://hpc.fau.de/
+[2] https://www10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/en/
+
+
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@@ -420,42 +420,66 @@ tr:nth-child(odd) {
 <div class="contents topic" id="contents">
 <p class="topic-title first">Contents</p>
 <ul class="auto-toc simple">
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#compilation" id="id2">1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Compilation</a><ul class="auto-toc">
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#debug-and-verification" id="id3">1.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Debug and Verification</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#benchmarking" id="id4">1.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Benchmarking</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#release-and-verification" id="id5">1.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Release and Verification</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#compilers" id="id6">1.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Compilers</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#cleaning" id="id7">1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cleaning</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#options-summary" id="id8">1.6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Options Summary</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#introduction" id="id5">1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Introduction</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#compilation" id="id6">2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Compilation</a><ul class="auto-toc">
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#debug-and-verification" id="id7">2.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Debug and Verification</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#release-and-verification" id="id8">2.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Release and Verification</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#benchmarking" id="id9">2.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Benchmarking</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#compilers" id="id10">2.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Compilers</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#cleaning" id="id11">2.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cleaning</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#options-summary" id="id12">2.6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Options Summary</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#invocation" id="id9">2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Invocation</a><ul class="auto-toc">
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#command-line-parameters" id="id10">2.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Command Line Parameters</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#kernels" id="id11">2.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kernels</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#invocation" id="id13">3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Invocation</a><ul class="auto-toc">
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#command-line-parameters" id="id14">3.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Command Line Parameters</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#kernels" id="id15">3.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kernels</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id1" id="id12">3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Benchmarking</a><ul class="auto-toc">
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#padding" id="id13">3.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Padding</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id2" id="id16">4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Benchmarking</a><ul class="auto-toc">
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#intel-compiler" id="id17">4.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Intel Compiler</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#pinning" id="id18">4.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pinning</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#general-remarks" id="id19">4.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;General Remarks</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#padding" id="id20">4.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Padding</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#geometries" id="id14">4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Geometries</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#results" id="id15">5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Results</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#licence" id="id16">6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Licence</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#acknowledgements" id="id17">7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Acknowledgements</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#geometries" id="id21">5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Geometries</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#performance-results" id="id22">6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Performance Results</a><ul class="auto-toc">
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#haswell-intel-xeon-e5-2695-v3" id="id23">6.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Haswell, Intel Xeon E5-2695 v3</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#broadwell-intel-xeon-e5-2630-v4" id="id24">6.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Broadwell, Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#skylake-intel-xeon-gold-6148" id="id25">6.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Skylake, Intel Xeon Gold 6148</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#licence" id="id26">7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Licence</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#acknowledgements" id="id27">8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Acknowledgements</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#bibliography" id="id28">9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bibliography</a></li>
 </ul>
 </div>
+<div class="section" id="introduction">
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Introduction</a></h1>
+<p>The lattice Boltzmann (LBM) benchmark kernels are a collection of LBM kernel
+implementations.</p>
+<p><strong>AS SUCH THE LBM BENCHMARK KERNELS ARE NO FULLY EQUIPPED CFD SOLVER AND SOLELY
+SERVES THE PURPOSE OF STUDYING POSSIBLE PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS AND/OR
+EXPERIMENTS.</strong></p>
+<p>Currently all kernels utilize a D3Q19 discretization and the
+two-relaxation-time (TRT) collision operator <a class="citation-reference" href="#ginzburg-2008" id="id1">[ginzburg-2008]</a>.
+All operations are carried out in double precision arithmetic.</p>
+</div>
 <div class="section" id="compilation">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2">1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Compilation</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Compilation</a></h1>
 <p>The benchmark framework currently supports only Linux systems and the GCC and
 Intel compilers. Every other configuration probably requires adjustment inside
-the code and the makefiles. Further some code might be platform or at least
+the code and the makefiles. Furthermore some code might be platform or at least
 POSIX specific.</p>
 <p>The benchmark can be build via <tt class="docutils literal">make</tt> from the <tt class="docutils literal">src</tt> subdirectory. This will
 generate one binary which hosts all implemented benchmark kernels.</p>
 <p>Binaries are located under the <tt class="docutils literal">bin</tt> subdirectory and will have different names
 depending on compiler and build configuration.</p>
+<p>Compilation can target debug or release builds. Combined with both build types
+verification can be enabled, which increases the runtime and hence is not
+suited for benchmarking.</p>
 <div class="section" id="debug-and-verification">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">1.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Debug and Verification</a></h2>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7">2.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Debug and Verification</a></h2>
 <pre class="literal-block">
 make BUILD=debug BENCHMARK=off
 </pre>
@@ -470,32 +494,34 @@ binary will be found in the <tt class="docutils literal">bin</tt> subdirectory a
 <p>Please note that the generated binary will therefore
 exhibit a poor performance.</p>
 </div>
+<div class="section" id="release-and-verification">
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8">2.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Release and Verification</a></h2>
+<p>Verification with the debug builds can be extremely slow. Hence verification
+capabilities can be build with release builds:</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+make BENCHMARK=off
+</pre>
+</div>
 <div class="section" id="benchmarking">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">1.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Benchmarking</a></h2>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9">2.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Benchmarking</a></h2>
 <p>To generate a binary for benchmarking run make with</p>
 <pre class="literal-block">
 make
 </pre>
 <p>As default <tt class="docutils literal">BENCHMARK=on</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">BUILD=release</tt> is set, where
-BUILD=release turns optimizations on and <tt class="docutils literal">BENCHMARK=on</tt> disables
+<tt class="docutils literal">BUILD=release</tt> turns optimizations on and <tt class="docutils literal">BENCHMARK=on</tt> disables
 verfification, statistics, and VTK output.</p>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="release-and-verification">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">1.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Release and Verification</a></h2>
-<p>Verification with the debug builds can be extremely slow. Hence verification
-capabilities can be build with release builds:</p>
-<pre class="literal-block">
-make BENCHMARK=off
-</pre>
+<p>See Options Summary below for further description of options which can be
+applied, e.g. TARCH as well as the Benchmarking section.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="compilers">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">1.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Compilers</a></h2>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10">2.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Compilers</a></h2>
 <p>Currently only the GCC and Intel compiler under Linux are supported. Between
 both configuration can be chosen via <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CONFIG=linux-gcc</span></tt> or
 <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CONFIG=linux-intel</span></tt>.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="cleaning">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7">1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cleaning</a></h2>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11">2.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cleaning</a></h2>
 <p>For each configuration and build (debug/release) a subdirectory under the
 <tt class="docutils literal">src/obj</tt> directory is created where the dependency and object files are
 stored.
@@ -510,21 +536,23 @@ make clean-all
 <p>all object and dependency files are deleted.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="options-summary">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8">1.6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Options Summary</a></h2>
-<p>Options that can be specified when building the framework with make:</p>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12">2.6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Options Summary</a></h2>
+<p>Options that can be specified when building the suite with make:</p>
 <table border="1" class="docutils">
 <colgroup>
-<col width="8%" />
-<col width="13%" />
 <col width="7%" />
-<col width="72%" />
+<col width="12%" />
+<col width="6%" />
+<col width="75%" />
 </colgroup>
-<tbody valign="top">
-<tr><td>name</td>
-<td>values</td>
-<td>default</td>
-<td>description</td>
+<thead valign="bottom">
+<tr><th class="head">name</th>
+<th class="head">values</th>
+<th class="head">default</th>
+<th class="head">description</th>
 </tr>
+</thead>
+<tbody valign="top">
 <tr><td>BENCHMARK</td>
 <td>on, off</td>
 <td>on</td>
@@ -533,7 +561,7 @@ make clean-all
 <tr><td>BUILD</td>
 <td>debug, release</td>
 <td>release</td>
-<td>No optimization, debug symbols, DEBUG defined.</td>
+<td>debug: no optimization, debug symbols, DEBUG defined. release: optimizations enabled.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr><td>CONFIG</td>
 <td>linux-gcc, linux-intel</td>
@@ -543,7 +571,7 @@ make clean-all
 <tr><td>ISA</td>
 <td>avx, sse</td>
 <td>avx</td>
-<td>Determines which ISA extension is used for macro definitions. This is <em>not</em> the architecture the compiler generates code for.</td>
+<td>Determines which ISA extension is used for macro definitions of the intrinsics. This is <em>not</em> the architecture the compiler generates code for.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr><td>OPENMP</td>
 <td>on, off</td>
@@ -575,7 +603,7 @@ make clean-all
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="invocation">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9">2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Invocation</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13">3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Invocation</a></h1>
 <p>Running the binary will print among the GPL licence header a line like the following:</p>
 <pre class="literal-block">
 LBM Benchmark Kernels 0.1, compiled Jul  5 2017 21:59:22, type: verification
@@ -586,7 +614,7 @@ LBM Benchmark Kernels 0.1, compiled Jul  5 2017 21:59:22, type: benchmark
 </pre>
 <p>if verfication was disabled during compilation.</p>
 <div class="section" id="command-line-parameters">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10">2.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Command Line Parameters</a></h2>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14">3.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Command Line Parameters</a></h2>
 <p>Running the binary with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-h</span></tt> list all available parameters:</p>
 <pre class="literal-block">
 Usage:
@@ -613,7 +641,7 @@ iterations, etc, which can afterward be override, e.g.:</p>
 <pre class="literal-block">
 $ bin/lbmbenchk-linux-intel-release -verfiy -dims 32x32x32
 </pre>
-<p>Kernel specific parameters can be opatained via selecting the specific kernel
+<p>Kernel specific parameters can be obtained via selecting the specific kernel
 and passing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-h</span></tt> as parameter:</p>
 <pre class="literal-block">
 $ bin/lbmbenchk-linux-intel-release -kernel kernel-name -- -h
@@ -651,7 +679,7 @@ Available kernels to benchmark:
 </pre>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="kernels">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11">2.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kernels</a></h2>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15">3.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kernels</a></h2>
 <p>The following list shortly describes available kernels:</p>
 <ul class="simple">
 <li>push-soa/push-aos/pull-soa/pull-aos:
@@ -862,8 +890,8 @@ during each run.</p>
 </table>
 </div>
 </div>
-<div class="section" id="id1">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12">3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Benchmarking</a></h1>
+<div class="section" id="id2">
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16">4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Benchmarking</a></h1>
 <p>Correct benchmarking is a nontrivial task. Whenever benchmark results should be
 created make sure the binary was compiled with:</p>
 <ul class="simple">
@@ -872,12 +900,43 @@ created make sure the binary was compiled with:</p>
 <li>the correct ISA for macros is used, selected via <tt class="docutils literal">ISA</tt> and</li>
 <li>use <tt class="docutils literal">TARCH</tt> to specify the architecture the compiler generates code for.</li>
 </ul>
+<div class="section" id="intel-compiler">
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id17">4.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Intel Compiler</a></h2>
+<p>For the Intel compiler one can specify depending on the target ISA extension:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>AVX:          <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TARCH=-xAVX</span></tt></li>
+<li>AVX2 and FMA: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TARCH=-xCORE-AVX2,-fma</span></tt></li>
+<li>AVX512:       <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TARCH=-xCORE-AVX512</span></tt></li>
+<li>KNL:          <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TARCH=-xMIC-AVX512</span></tt></li>
+</ul>
+<p>Compiling for an architecture supporting AVX (Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge):</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+make ISA=avx TARCH=-xAVX
+</pre>
+<p>Compiling for an architecture supporting AVX2 (Haswell, Broadwell):</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+make ISA=avx TARCH=-xCORE-AVX2,-fma
+</pre>
+<p>WARNING: ISA is here still set to <tt class="docutils literal">avx</tt> as currently we have the FMA intrinsics not
+implemented. This might change in the future.</p>
+<p>Compiling for an architecture supporting AVX-512 (Skylake):</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+make ISA=avx TARCH=-xCORE-AVX512
+</pre>
+<p>WARNING: ISA is here still set to <tt class="docutils literal">avx</tt> as currently we have no implementation for the
+AVX512 intrinsics. This might change in the future.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="pinning">
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id18">4.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pinning</a></h2>
 <p>During benchmarking pinning should be used via the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-pin</span></tt> parameter. Running
-a benchmark with 10 threads an pin them to the first 10 cores works like</p>
+a benchmark with 10 threads and pin them to the first 10 cores works like</p>
 <pre class="literal-block">
 $ bin/lbmbenchk-linux-intel-release ... -t 10 -pin $(seq -s , 0 9)
 </pre>
-<p>Things the binary does nor check or controll:</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="general-remarks">
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id19">4.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;General Remarks</a></h2>
+<p>Things the binary does nor check or control:</p>
 <ul class="simple">
 <li>transparent huge pages: when allocating memory small 4 KiB pages might be
 replaced with larger ones. This is in general a good thing, but if this is
@@ -895,7 +954,7 @@ means the memory will be placed at the NUMA domain the touching core is
 associated with. If a different policy is in place or the NUMA domain to be
 used is already full memory might be allocated in a remote domain. Accesses
 to remote domains typically have a higher latency and lower bandwidth.</li>
-<li>System load: interference with other application, espcially on desktop
+<li>System load: interference with other application, especially on desktop
 systems should be avoided.</li>
 <li>Padding: For SoA based kernels the number of (fluid) nodes is automatically
 adjusted so that no cache or TLB thrashing should occur. The parameters are
@@ -905,8 +964,9 @@ padding section.</li>
 function for different ISA extensions. Make sure the code you might think is
 executed is actually the code which is executed.</li>
 </ul>
+</div>
 <div class="section" id="padding">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13">3.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Padding</a></h2>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id20">4.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Padding</a></h2>
 <p>With correct padding cache and TLB thrashing can be avoided. Therefore the
 number of (fluid) nodes used in the data layout is artificially increased.</p>
 <p>Currently automatic padding is active for kernels which support it. It can be
@@ -938,22 +998,912 @@ like <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-pad</span> 0+16</tt> would
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="geometries">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14">4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Geometries</a></h1>
-<p>TODO: supported geometries: channel, pipe, blocks</p>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id21">5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Geometries</a></h1>
+<p>TODO: supported geometries: channel, pipe, blocks, fluid</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="performance-results">
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id22">6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Performance Results</a></h1>
+<p>The sections lists performance values measured on several machines for
+different kernels and geometries.
+The <strong>RFM</strong> column denotes the expected performance as predicted by the
+Roofline performance model <a class="citation-reference" href="#williams-2008" id="id3">[williams-2008]</a>.
+For performance prediction of each kernel a memory bandwidth benchmark is used
+which mimics the kernels memory access pattern and the kernel's loop balance
+(see <a class="citation-reference" href="#kernels" id="id4">[kernels]</a> for details).</p>
+<div class="section" id="haswell-intel-xeon-e5-2695-v3">
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id23">6.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Haswell, Intel Xeon E5-2695 v3</a></h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Haswell architecture, AVX2, FMA</li>
+<li>14 cores, 2,3 GHz</li>
+<li>2 x 7 cores in cluster-on-die (CoD) mode enabled</li>
+<li>SMT enabled</li>
+</ul>
+<p>memory bandwidth:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>copy-19              47.3 GB/s</li>
+<li>copy-19-nt-sl        47.1 GB/s</li>
+<li>update-19            44.0 GB/s</li>
+</ul>
+<p>geometry dimensions:  500x100x100</p>
+<table border="1" class="docutils">
+<colgroup>
+<col width="19%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="4%" />
+</colgroup>
+<thead valign="bottom">
+<tr><th class="head">kernel</th>
+<th class="head">pipe</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-2</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-4</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-6</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-8</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-10</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-15</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-16</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-20</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-25</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-32</th>
+<th class="head">RFM</th>
+</tr>
+</thead>
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr><td>blk-push-aos</td>
+<td>58.82</td>
+<td>49.85</td>
+<td>57.34</td>
+<td>59.90</td>
+<td>61.37</td>
+<td>62.17</td>
+<td>65.30</td>
+<td>64.00</td>
+<td>67.54</td>
+<td>64.46</td>
+<td>69.69</td>
+<td>104</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>blk-push-soa</td>
+<td>32.32</td>
+<td>33.46</td>
+<td>34.02</td>
+<td>34.64</td>
+<td>35.06</td>
+<td>35.04</td>
+<td>36.31</td>
+<td>35.44</td>
+<td>37.20</td>
+<td>35.14</td>
+<td>37.95</td>
+<td>104</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>blk-pull-aos</td>
+<td>56.97</td>
+<td>51.41</td>
+<td>56.09</td>
+<td>57.92</td>
+<td>59.98</td>
+<td>59.83</td>
+<td>63.37</td>
+<td>61.55</td>
+<td>65.50</td>
+<td>63.11</td>
+<td>67.02</td>
+<td>104</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>blk-pull-soa</td>
+<td>49.29</td>
+<td>46.23</td>
+<td>47.50</td>
+<td>51.97</td>
+<td>51.27</td>
+<td>49.52</td>
+<td>55.23</td>
+<td>53.13</td>
+<td>54.50</td>
+<td>49.79</td>
+<td>57.90</td>
+<td>104</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>aa-aos</td>
+<td>91.35</td>
+<td>66.14</td>
+<td>76.80</td>
+<td>84.76</td>
+<td>83.63</td>
+<td>91.36</td>
+<td>93.46</td>
+<td>92.62</td>
+<td>93.91</td>
+<td>92.25</td>
+<td>92.93</td>
+<td>145</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>aa-soa</td>
+<td>75.51</td>
+<td>65.68</td>
+<td>70.94</td>
+<td>71.36</td>
+<td>73.83</td>
+<td>75.46</td>
+<td>74.84</td>
+<td>79.48</td>
+<td>83.28</td>
+<td>77.70</td>
+<td>82.72</td>
+<td>145</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>aa-vec-soa</td>
+<td>93.85</td>
+<td>83.44</td>
+<td>91.58</td>
+<td>93.96</td>
+<td>94.35</td>
+<td>96.62</td>
+<td>101.76</td>
+<td>96.72</td>
+<td>106.37</td>
+<td>102.60</td>
+<td>110.28</td>
+<td>145</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-push-aos</td>
+<td>80.29</td>
+<td>80.97</td>
+<td>80.95</td>
+<td>81.10</td>
+<td>81.37</td>
+<td>82.44</td>
+<td>81.77</td>
+<td>81.49</td>
+<td>80.72</td>
+<td>81.93</td>
+<td>80.93</td>
+<td>83</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-push-soa</td>
+<td>47.52</td>
+<td>42.65</td>
+<td>45.28</td>
+<td>46.64</td>
+<td>43.46</td>
+<td>40.59</td>
+<td>44.94</td>
+<td>46.55</td>
+<td>41.53</td>
+<td>45.98</td>
+<td>44.86</td>
+<td>83</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-pull-aos</td>
+<td>85.30</td>
+<td>82.97</td>
+<td>86.43</td>
+<td>83.42</td>
+<td>86.33</td>
+<td>83.70</td>
+<td>86.43</td>
+<td>83.77</td>
+<td>83.10</td>
+<td>85.89</td>
+<td>84.44</td>
+<td>83</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-pull-soa</td>
+<td>62.12</td>
+<td>63.61</td>
+<td>63.28</td>
+<td>61.32</td>
+<td>66.72</td>
+<td>62.65</td>
+<td>64.82</td>
+<td>60.49</td>
+<td>58.01</td>
+<td>64.46</td>
+<td>62.52</td>
+<td>83</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-pull-split-nt-1s-soa</td>
+<td>121.35</td>
+<td>113.77</td>
+<td>115.29</td>
+<td>113.54</td>
+<td>117.00</td>
+<td>116.46</td>
+<td>114.78</td>
+<td>114.54</td>
+<td>110.83</td>
+<td>112.67</td>
+<td>117.85</td>
+<td>125</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-pull-split-nt-2s-soa</td>
+<td>118.09</td>
+<td>110.48</td>
+<td>112.55</td>
+<td>113.18</td>
+<td>113.44</td>
+<td>111.85</td>
+<td>109.27</td>
+<td>114.41</td>
+<td>110.28</td>
+<td>111.78</td>
+<td>113.74</td>
+<td>125</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-aa-aos</td>
+<td>121.28</td>
+<td>118.63</td>
+<td>119.00</td>
+<td>118.50</td>
+<td>121.99</td>
+<td>119.11</td>
+<td>118.83</td>
+<td>121.47</td>
+<td>121.62</td>
+<td>126.18</td>
+<td>120.12</td>
+<td>129</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-aa-soa</td>
+<td>126.34</td>
+<td>116.90</td>
+<td>129.45</td>
+<td>127.12</td>
+<td>129.41</td>
+<td>121.42</td>
+<td>126.19</td>
+<td>126.76</td>
+<td>126.70</td>
+<td>124.40</td>
+<td>125.22</td>
+<td>129</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-aa-ria-soa</td>
+<td>133.68</td>
+<td>121.82</td>
+<td>126.04</td>
+<td>128.46</td>
+<td>131.15</td>
+<td>132.25</td>
+<td>128.78</td>
+<td>133.50</td>
+<td>126.69</td>
+<td>124.40</td>
+<td>130.37</td>
+<td>145</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-aa-pv-soa</td>
+<td>146.22</td>
+<td>124.39</td>
+<td>130.73</td>
+<td>136.29</td>
+<td>137.61</td>
+<td>131.21</td>
+<td>138.65</td>
+<td>138.78</td>
+<td>127.02</td>
+<td>132.40</td>
+<td>138.37</td>
+<td>145</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="broadwell-intel-xeon-e5-2630-v4">
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id24">6.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Broadwell, Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4</a></h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Broadwell architecture, AVX2, FMA</li>
+<li>10 cores, 2.2 GHz</li>
+<li>SMT disabled</li>
+</ul>
+<p>memory bandwidth:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>copy-19              48.0 GB/s</li>
+<li>copy-nt-sl-19        48.2 GB/s</li>
+<li>update-19            51.1 GB/s</li>
+</ul>
+<p>geometry dimensions:  500x100x100</p>
+<table border="1" class="docutils">
+<colgroup>
+<col width="19%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="5%" />
+</colgroup>
+<thead valign="bottom">
+<tr><th class="head">kernel</th>
+<th class="head">pipe</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-2</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-4</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-6</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-8</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-10</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-15</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-16</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-20</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-25</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-32</th>
+<th class="head">RFM</th>
+</tr>
+</thead>
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr><td>blk-push-aos</td>
+<td>55.75</td>
+<td>47.62</td>
+<td>54.57</td>
+<td>57.10</td>
+<td>58.49</td>
+<td>59.00</td>
+<td>61.72</td>
+<td>60.56</td>
+<td>64.05</td>
+<td>61.10</td>
+<td>66.03</td>
+<td>105</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>blk-push-soa</td>
+<td>30.06</td>
+<td>31.09</td>
+<td>32.13</td>
+<td>32.54</td>
+<td>32.74</td>
+<td>32.72</td>
+<td>33.81</td>
+<td>33.19</td>
+<td>34.90</td>
+<td>33.21</td>
+<td>35.75</td>
+<td>105</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>blk-pull-aos</td>
+<td>53.80</td>
+<td>48.61</td>
+<td>53.08</td>
+<td>54.99</td>
+<td>56.08</td>
+<td>56.68</td>
+<td>59.20</td>
+<td>58.12</td>
+<td>61.49</td>
+<td>58.71</td>
+<td>63.45</td>
+<td>105</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>blk-pull-soa</td>
+<td>46.96</td>
+<td>46.61</td>
+<td>48.84</td>
+<td>49.70</td>
+<td>50.33</td>
+<td>50.46</td>
+<td>52.36</td>
+<td>51.39</td>
+<td>54.20</td>
+<td>51.61</td>
+<td>55.71</td>
+<td>105</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>aa-aos</td>
+<td>91.40</td>
+<td>66.99</td>
+<td>78.47</td>
+<td>83.38</td>
+<td>86.62</td>
+<td>88.62</td>
+<td>92.98</td>
+<td>91.54</td>
+<td>97.08</td>
+<td>94.93</td>
+<td>98.90</td>
+<td>168</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>aa-soa</td>
+<td>83.01</td>
+<td>69.96</td>
+<td>75.85</td>
+<td>77.72</td>
+<td>79.01</td>
+<td>79.29</td>
+<td>82.38</td>
+<td>80.11</td>
+<td>85.70</td>
+<td>83.91</td>
+<td>87.69</td>
+<td>168</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>aa-vec-soa</td>
+<td>112.03</td>
+<td>96.52</td>
+<td>105.32</td>
+<td>109.76</td>
+<td>112.55</td>
+<td>113.82</td>
+<td>120.55</td>
+<td>118.37</td>
+<td>126.30</td>
+<td>121.37</td>
+<td>131.94</td>
+<td>168</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-push-aos</td>
+<td>75.13</td>
+<td>74.18</td>
+<td>75.20</td>
+<td>75.42</td>
+<td>75.24</td>
+<td>75.99</td>
+<td>75.80</td>
+<td>75.80</td>
+<td>75.54</td>
+<td>76.22</td>
+<td>76.21</td>
+<td>97</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-push-soa</td>
+<td>40.99</td>
+<td>38.14</td>
+<td>39.00</td>
+<td>38.89</td>
+<td>38.89</td>
+<td>39.67</td>
+<td>39.87</td>
+<td>39.28</td>
+<td>39.35</td>
+<td>40.08</td>
+<td>40.13</td>
+<td>97</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-pull-aos</td>
+<td>82.07</td>
+<td>82.88</td>
+<td>83.29</td>
+<td>83.09</td>
+<td>83.32</td>
+<td>83.49</td>
+<td>82.82</td>
+<td>82.88</td>
+<td>83.32</td>
+<td>82.60</td>
+<td>82.93</td>
+<td>97</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-pull-soa</td>
+<td>62.07</td>
+<td>60.40</td>
+<td>61.89</td>
+<td>61.39</td>
+<td>62.43</td>
+<td>60.90</td>
+<td>60.48</td>
+<td>62.80</td>
+<td>62.50</td>
+<td>61.10</td>
+<td>60.38</td>
+<td>97</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-pull-split-nt-1s-soa</td>
+<td>125.81</td>
+<td>120.60</td>
+<td>121.96</td>
+<td>122.34</td>
+<td>122.86</td>
+<td>123.53</td>
+<td>123.64</td>
+<td>123.67</td>
+<td>125.94</td>
+<td>124.09</td>
+<td>123.69</td>
+<td>128</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-pull-split-nt-2s-soa</td>
+<td>122.79</td>
+<td>117.16</td>
+<td>118.86</td>
+<td>119.16</td>
+<td>119.56</td>
+<td>119.99</td>
+<td>120.01</td>
+<td>120.03</td>
+<td>122.64</td>
+<td>120.57</td>
+<td>120.39</td>
+<td>128</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-aa-aos</td>
+<td>128.13</td>
+<td>127.41</td>
+<td>129.31</td>
+<td>129.07</td>
+<td>129.79</td>
+<td>129.63</td>
+<td>129.67</td>
+<td>129.94</td>
+<td>129.12</td>
+<td>128.41</td>
+<td>129.72</td>
+<td>150</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-aa-soa</td>
+<td>141.60</td>
+<td>139.78</td>
+<td>141.58</td>
+<td>142.16</td>
+<td>141.94</td>
+<td>141.31</td>
+<td>142.37</td>
+<td>142.25</td>
+<td>142.43</td>
+<td>141.40</td>
+<td>142.26</td>
+<td>150</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-aa-ria-soa</td>
+<td>141.82</td>
+<td>134.88</td>
+<td>140.15</td>
+<td>140.72</td>
+<td>141.67</td>
+<td>140.51</td>
+<td>141.18</td>
+<td>141.29</td>
+<td>142.97</td>
+<td>141.94</td>
+<td>143.25</td>
+<td>168</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-aa-pv-soa</td>
+<td>164.79</td>
+<td>140.95</td>
+<td>159.24</td>
+<td>161.78</td>
+<td>162.40</td>
+<td>163.04</td>
+<td>164.69</td>
+<td>164.38</td>
+<td>165.11</td>
+<td>165.75</td>
+<td>166.09</td>
+<td>168</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="skylake-intel-xeon-gold-6148">
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id25">6.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Skylake, Intel Xeon Gold 6148</a></h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Skylake architecture, AVX2, FMA, AVX512</li>
+<li>20 cores, 2.4 GHz</li>
+<li>SMT enabled</li>
+</ul>
+<p>memory bandwidth:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>copy-19                  89.7 GB/s</li>
+<li>copy-19-nt-sl            92.4 GB/s</li>
+<li>update-19                93.6 GB/s</li>
+</ul>
+<p>geometry dimensions:  500x100x100</p>
+<table border="1" class="docutils">
+<colgroup>
+<col width="20%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="7%" />
+<col width="2%" />
+</colgroup>
+<thead valign="bottom">
+<tr><th class="head">kernel</th>
+<th class="head">pipe</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-2</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-4</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-6</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-8</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-10</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-15</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-16</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-20</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-25</th>
+<th class="head">blocks-32</th>
+<th class="head">RFM</th>
+</tr>
+</thead>
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr><td>blk-push-aos</td>
+<td>113.01</td>
+<td>93.99</td>
+<td>108.98</td>
+<td>114.65</td>
+<td>117.87</td>
+<td>119.47</td>
+<td>124.95</td>
+<td>122.46</td>
+<td>129.29</td>
+<td>123.87</td>
+<td>133.01</td>
+<td>197</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>blk-push-soa</td>
+<td>100.21</td>
+<td>98.87</td>
+<td>103.63</td>
+<td>105.56</td>
+<td>107.02</td>
+<td>107.27</td>
+<td>111.61</td>
+<td>109.83</td>
+<td>116.16</td>
+<td>110.51</td>
+<td>110.29</td>
+<td>197</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>blk-pull-aos</td>
+<td>118.45</td>
+<td>102.54</td>
+<td>114.12</td>
+<td>117.82</td>
+<td>122.69</td>
+<td>124.31</td>
+<td>130.58</td>
+<td>127.85</td>
+<td>135.72</td>
+<td>129.65</td>
+<td>139.94</td>
+<td>197</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>blk-pull-soa</td>
+<td>82.60</td>
+<td>83.36</td>
+<td>87.13</td>
+<td>88.39</td>
+<td>88.84</td>
+<td>88.96</td>
+<td>92.48</td>
+<td>90.93</td>
+<td>95.79</td>
+<td>91.92</td>
+<td>98.64</td>
+<td>197</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>aa-aos</td>
+<td>171.32</td>
+<td>125.43</td>
+<td>147.73</td>
+<td>157.70</td>
+<td>163.35</td>
+<td>167.25</td>
+<td>175.39</td>
+<td>174.20</td>
+<td>182.54</td>
+<td>173.67</td>
+<td>187.76</td>
+<td>308</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>aa-soa</td>
+<td>180.85</td>
+<td>152.39</td>
+<td>165.84</td>
+<td>152.59</td>
+<td>171.90</td>
+<td>175.76</td>
+<td>184.94</td>
+<td>182.34</td>
+<td>189.43</td>
+<td>180.30</td>
+<td>193.54</td>
+<td>308</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>aa-vec-soa</td>
+<td>208.03</td>
+<td>181.51</td>
+<td>195.86</td>
+<td>203.41</td>
+<td>209.08</td>
+<td>212.34</td>
+<td>224.05</td>
+<td>219.49</td>
+<td>234.31</td>
+<td>225.92</td>
+<td>245.22</td>
+<td>308</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-push-aos</td>
+<td>158.81</td>
+<td>164.67</td>
+<td>162.93</td>
+<td>163.05</td>
+<td>165.22</td>
+<td>164.31</td>
+<td>164.66</td>
+<td>160.78</td>
+<td>164.07</td>
+<td>165.19</td>
+<td>164.06</td>
+<td>177</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-push-soa</td>
+<td>134.60</td>
+<td>110.44</td>
+<td>110.17</td>
+<td>132.01</td>
+<td>132.95</td>
+<td>133.46</td>
+<td>134.37</td>
+<td>134.33</td>
+<td>135.12</td>
+<td>134.91</td>
+<td>137.87</td>
+<td>177</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-pull-aos</td>
+<td>169.61</td>
+<td>170.03</td>
+<td>170.89</td>
+<td>170.90</td>
+<td>171.20</td>
+<td>171.60</td>
+<td>172.09</td>
+<td>171.95</td>
+<td>169.48</td>
+<td>172.08</td>
+<td>171.02</td>
+<td>177</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-pull-soa</td>
+<td>120.50</td>
+<td>116.73</td>
+<td>118.62</td>
+<td>118.00</td>
+<td>120.99</td>
+<td>118.15</td>
+<td>117.17</td>
+<td>121.41</td>
+<td>120.83</td>
+<td>120.00</td>
+<td>118.74</td>
+<td>177</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-pull-split-nt-1s-soa</td>
+<td>225.59</td>
+<td>224.18</td>
+<td>225.10</td>
+<td>226.34</td>
+<td>226.01</td>
+<td>230.37</td>
+<td>227.50</td>
+<td>228.42</td>
+<td>227.39</td>
+<td>231.65</td>
+<td>227.35</td>
+<td>246</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-pull-split-nt-2s-soa</td>
+<td>219.20</td>
+<td>214.63</td>
+<td>217.61</td>
+<td>218.13</td>
+<td>219.07</td>
+<td>221.01</td>
+<td>219.88</td>
+<td>220.09</td>
+<td>220.62</td>
+<td>221.68</td>
+<td>220.58</td>
+<td>246</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-aa-aos</td>
+<td>241.39</td>
+<td>239.27</td>
+<td>239.53</td>
+<td>242.56</td>
+<td>242.46</td>
+<td>243.00</td>
+<td>242.91</td>
+<td>242.46</td>
+<td>241.24</td>
+<td>242.96</td>
+<td>241.52</td>
+<td>275</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-aa-soa</td>
+<td>273.73</td>
+<td>268.49</td>
+<td>268.48</td>
+<td>271.79</td>
+<td>275.29</td>
+<td>274.56</td>
+<td>277.18</td>
+<td>272.67</td>
+<td>274.21</td>
+<td>275.24</td>
+<td>278.21</td>
+<td>275</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-aa-ria-soa</td>
+<td>288.42</td>
+<td>261.89</td>
+<td>273.26</td>
+<td>284.84</td>
+<td>283.88</td>
+<td>288.29</td>
+<td>290.72</td>
+<td>289.81</td>
+<td>293.36</td>
+<td>290.75</td>
+<td>292.93</td>
+<td>308</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>list-aa-pv-soa</td>
+<td>303.35</td>
+<td>267.21</td>
+<td>289.18</td>
+<td>294.96</td>
+<td>294.36</td>
+<td>298.16</td>
+<td>300.45</td>
+<td>301.71</td>
+<td>302.37</td>
+<td>302.88</td>
+<td>304.46</td>
+<td>308</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
 </div>
-<div class="section" id="results">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15">5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Results</a></h1>
-<p>TODO</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="licence">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16">6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Licence</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id26">7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Licence</a></h1>
 <p>The Lattice Boltzmann Benchmark Kernels are licensed under GPLv3.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="acknowledgements">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id17">7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Acknowledgements</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id27">8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Acknowledgements</a></h1>
 <p>This work was funded by BMBF, grant no. 01IH15003A (project SKAMPY).</p>
 <p>This work was funded by KONWHIR project OMI4PAPS.</p>
-<p>Document was generated at 2017-11-02 15:33.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="bibliography">
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id28">9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bibliography</a></h1>
+<table class="docutils citation" frame="void" id="ginzburg-2008" rules="none">
+<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup>
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1">[ginzburg-2008]</a></td><td>I. Ginzburg, F. Verhaeghe, and D. d'Humières.
+Two-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann scheme: About parametrization, velocity, pressure and mixed boundary conditions.
+Commun. Comput. Phys., 3(2):427-478, 2008.</td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<table class="docutils citation" frame="void" id="williams-2008" rules="none">
+<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup>
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id3">[williams-2008]</a></td><td>S. Williams, A. Waterman, and D. Patterson.
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+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p>Document was generated at 2017-11-21 15:43.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 </body>
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@@ -35,12 +35,26 @@ LBM Benchmark Kernels Documentation
 .. sectnum::
 .. contents::
 
+Introduction
+============
+
+The lattice Boltzmann (LBM) benchmark kernels are a collection of LBM kernel
+implementations.
+
+**AS SUCH THE LBM BENCHMARK KERNELS ARE NO FULLY EQUIPPED CFD SOLVER AND SOLELY
+SERVES THE PURPOSE OF STUDYING POSSIBLE PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS AND/OR
+EXPERIMENTS.**
+
+Currently all kernels utilize a D3Q19 discretization and the
+two-relaxation-time (TRT) collision operator [ginzburg-2008]_.
+All operations are carried out in double precision arithmetic.
+
 Compilation
 ===========
 
 The benchmark framework currently supports only Linux systems and the GCC and 
 Intel compilers. Every other configuration probably requires adjustment inside
-the code and the makefiles. Further some code might be platform or at least
+the code and the makefiles. Furthermore some code might be platform or at least
 POSIX specific.
 
 The benchmark can be build via ``make`` from the ``src`` subdirectory. This will
@@ -49,6 +63,11 @@ generate one binary which hosts all implemented benchmark kernels.
 Binaries are located under the ``bin`` subdirectory and will have different names
 depending on compiler and build configuration.
 
+Compilation can target debug or release builds. Combined with both build types
+verification can be enabled, which increases the runtime and hence is not
+suited for benchmarking.
+
+
 Debug and Verification
 ----------------------
 
@@ -69,6 +88,16 @@ Specifying ``BENCHMARK=off`` turns on verification
 Please note that the generated binary will therefore
 exhibit a poor performance.
 
+
+Release and Verification
+------------------------
+
+Verification with the debug builds can be extremely slow. Hence verification
+capabilities can be build with release builds: ::
+
+  make BENCHMARK=off 
+
+
 Benchmarking
 ------------
 
@@ -77,16 +106,11 @@ To generate a binary for benchmarking run make with ::
   make 
 
 As default ``BENCHMARK=on`` and ``BUILD=release`` is set, where
-BUILD=release turns optimizations on and ``BENCHMARK=on`` disables
+``BUILD=release`` turns optimizations on and ``BENCHMARK=on`` disables
 verfification, statistics, and VTK output.
 
-Release and Verification
-------------------------
-
-Verification with the debug builds can be extremely slow. Hence verification
-capabilities can be build with release builds: ::
-
-  make BENCHMARK=off 
+See Options Summary below for further description of options which can be
+applied, e.g. TARCH as well as the Benchmarking section.
 
 Compilers
 ---------
@@ -116,15 +140,15 @@ all object and dependency files are deleted.
 Options Summary
 ---------------
 
-Options that can be specified when building the framework with make:
+Options that can be specified when building the suite with make:
 
 ============= ======================= ============ ==========================================================
 name          values                  default      description
-------------- ----------------------- ------------ ----------------------------------------------------------
+============= ======================= ============ ==========================================================
 BENCHMARK     on, off                 on           If enabled, disables VERIFICATION, STATISTICS, VTK_OUTPUT. If disabled enables the three former options.
-BUILD         debug, release          release      No optimization, debug symbols, DEBUG defined.
+BUILD         debug, release          release      debug: no optimization, debug symbols, DEBUG defined. release: optimizations enabled.
 CONFIG        linux-gcc, linux-intel  linux-intel  Select GCC or Intel compiler. 
-ISA           avx, sse                avx          Determines which ISA extension is used for macro definitions. This is *not* the architecture the compiler generates code for.
+ISA           avx, sse                avx          Determines which ISA extension is used for macro definitions of the intrinsics. This is *not* the architecture the compiler generates code for.
 OPENMP        on, off                 on           OpenMP, i.\,e.\. threading support.
 STATISTICS    on, off                 off          View statistics, like density etc, during simulation. 
 TARCH         --                      --           Via TARCH the architecture the compiler generates code for can be overridden. The value depends on the chosen compiler.
@@ -175,7 +199,7 @@ iterations, etc, which can afterward be override, e.g.: ::
 
   $ bin/lbmbenchk-linux-intel-release -verfiy -dims 32x32x32
 
-Kernel specific parameters can be opatained via selecting the specific kernel
+Kernel specific parameters can be obtained via selecting the specific kernel
 and passing ``-h`` as parameter: ::
 
   $ bin/lbmbenchk-linux-intel-release -kernel kernel-name -- -h
@@ -299,13 +323,51 @@ created make sure the binary was compiled with:
 - ``BUILD=release`` (default if not overriden) and 
 - the correct ISA for macros is used, selected via ``ISA`` and
 - use ``TARCH`` to specify the architecture the compiler generates code for.
+  
+Intel Compiler
+--------------
+
+For the Intel compiler one can specify depending on the target ISA extension:
+
+- AVX:          ``TARCH=-xAVX``
+- AVX2 and FMA: ``TARCH=-xCORE-AVX2,-fma``
+- AVX512:       ``TARCH=-xCORE-AVX512``
+- KNL:          ``TARCH=-xMIC-AVX512``
+
+Compiling for an architecture supporting AVX (Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge): ::
+
+  make ISA=avx TARCH=-xAVX
+
+
+Compiling for an architecture supporting AVX2 (Haswell, Broadwell): ::
+
+  make ISA=avx TARCH=-xCORE-AVX2,-fma
+
+WARNING: ISA is here still set to ``avx`` as currently we have the FMA intrinsics not
+implemented. This might change in the future.
+
+
+Compiling for an architecture supporting AVX-512 (Skylake): ::
+
+  make ISA=avx TARCH=-xCORE-AVX512
+
+WARNING: ISA is here still set to ``avx`` as currently we have no implementation for the
+AVX512 intrinsics. This might change in the future.
+
+
+Pinning
+-------
 
 During benchmarking pinning should be used via the ``-pin`` parameter. Running
-a benchmark with 10 threads an pin them to the first 10 cores works like ::
+a benchmark with 10 threads and pin them to the first 10 cores works like ::
 
   $ bin/lbmbenchk-linux-intel-release ... -t 10 -pin $(seq -s , 0 9)
 
-Things the binary does nor check or controll:
+
+General Remarks
+---------------
+
+Things the binary does nor check or control:
 
 - transparent huge pages: when allocating memory small 4 KiB pages might be
   replaced with larger ones. This is in general a good thing, but if this is
@@ -326,7 +388,7 @@ Things the binary does nor check or controll:
   used is already full memory might be allocated in a remote domain. Accesses
   to remote domains typically have a higher latency and lower bandwidth.
 
-- System load: interference with other application, espcially on desktop
+- System load: interference with other application, especially on desktop
   systems should be avoided.
 
 - Padding: For SoA based kernels the number of (fluid) nodes is automatically
@@ -378,14 +440,134 @@ like ``-pad 0+16`` would at a static padding of two nodes (one node = 8 b).
 Geometries
 ==========
 
-TODO: supported geometries: channel, pipe, blocks
-
-
-Results
-=======
-
-TODO
-
+TODO: supported geometries: channel, pipe, blocks, fluid
+
+
+Performance Results
+===================
+
+The sections lists performance values measured on several machines for
+different kernels and geometries.
+The **RFM** column denotes the expected performance as predicted by the
+Roofline performance model [williams-2008]_. 
+For performance prediction of each kernel a memory bandwidth benchmark is used
+which mimics the kernels memory access pattern and the kernel's loop balance
+(see [kernels]_ for details).
+
+Haswell, Intel Xeon E5-2695 v3
+------------------------------
+
+- Haswell architecture, AVX2, FMA
+- 14 cores, 2,3 GHz
+- 2 x 7 cores in cluster-on-die (CoD) mode enabled
+- SMT enabled
+
+memory bandwidth:
+
+- copy-19              47.3 GB/s
+- copy-19-nt-sl        47.1 GB/s
+- update-19            44.0 GB/s
+
+geometry dimensions:  500x100x100
+
+=========================    =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =====
+kernel                            pipe   blocks-2   blocks-4   blocks-6   blocks-8  blocks-10  blocks-15  blocks-16  blocks-20  blocks-25  blocks-32  RFM
+=========================    =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =====
+blk-push-aos                     58.82      49.85      57.34      59.90      61.37      62.17      65.30      64.00      67.54      64.46      69.69   104 
+blk-push-soa                     32.32      33.46      34.02      34.64      35.06      35.04      36.31      35.44      37.20      35.14      37.95   104
+blk-pull-aos                     56.97      51.41      56.09      57.92      59.98      59.83      63.37      61.55      65.50      63.11      67.02   104
+blk-pull-soa                     49.29      46.23      47.50      51.97      51.27      49.52      55.23      53.13      54.50      49.79      57.90   104
+aa-aos                           91.35      66.14      76.80      84.76      83.63      91.36      93.46      92.62      93.91      92.25      92.93   145
+aa-soa                           75.51      65.68      70.94      71.36      73.83      75.46      74.84      79.48      83.28      77.70      82.72   145
+aa-vec-soa                       93.85      83.44      91.58      93.96      94.35      96.62     101.76      96.72     106.37     102.60     110.28   145
+list-push-aos                    80.29      80.97      80.95      81.10      81.37      82.44      81.77      81.49      80.72      81.93      80.93   83
+list-push-soa                    47.52      42.65      45.28      46.64      43.46      40.59      44.94      46.55      41.53      45.98      44.86   83
+list-pull-aos                    85.30      82.97      86.43      83.42      86.33      83.70      86.43      83.77      83.10      85.89      84.44   83
+list-pull-soa                    62.12      63.61      63.28      61.32      66.72      62.65      64.82      60.49      58.01      64.46      62.52   83
+list-pull-split-nt-1s-soa       121.35     113.77     115.29     113.54     117.00     116.46     114.78     114.54     110.83     112.67     117.85   125
+list-pull-split-nt-2s-soa       118.09     110.48     112.55     113.18     113.44     111.85     109.27     114.41     110.28     111.78     113.74   125
+list-aa-aos                     121.28     118.63     119.00     118.50     121.99     119.11     118.83     121.47     121.62     126.18     120.12   129
+list-aa-soa                     126.34     116.90     129.45     127.12     129.41     121.42     126.19     126.76     126.70     124.40     125.22   129
+list-aa-ria-soa                 133.68     121.82     126.04     128.46     131.15     132.25     128.78     133.50     126.69     124.40     130.37   145
+list-aa-pv-soa                  146.22     124.39     130.73     136.29     137.61     131.21     138.65     138.78     127.02     132.40     138.37   145
+=========================    =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =====
+
+
+Broadwell, Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4
+--------------------------------
+
+- Broadwell architecture, AVX2, FMA
+- 10 cores, 2.2 GHz
+- SMT disabled
+
+memory bandwidth:
+
+- copy-19              48.0 GB/s
+- copy-nt-sl-19        48.2 GB/s
+- update-19            51.1 GB/s
+
+geometry dimensions:  500x100x100
+
+=========================   =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =======
+kernel                           pipe   blocks-2   blocks-4   blocks-6   blocks-8  blocks-10  blocks-15  blocks-16  blocks-20  blocks-25  blocks-32  RFM
+=========================   =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =======
+blk-push-aos                    55.75      47.62      54.57      57.10      58.49      59.00      61.72      60.56      64.05      61.10      66.03  105
+blk-push-soa                    30.06      31.09      32.13      32.54      32.74      32.72      33.81      33.19      34.90      33.21      35.75  105
+blk-pull-aos                    53.80      48.61      53.08      54.99      56.08      56.68      59.20      58.12      61.49      58.71      63.45  105
+blk-pull-soa                    46.96      46.61      48.84      49.70      50.33      50.46      52.36      51.39      54.20      51.61      55.71  105
+aa-aos                          91.40      66.99      78.47      83.38      86.62      88.62      92.98      91.54      97.08      94.93      98.90  168
+aa-soa                          83.01      69.96      75.85      77.72      79.01      79.29      82.38      80.11      85.70      83.91      87.69  168
+aa-vec-soa                     112.03      96.52     105.32     109.76     112.55     113.82     120.55     118.37     126.30     121.37     131.94  168
+list-push-aos                   75.13      74.18      75.20      75.42      75.24      75.99      75.80      75.80      75.54      76.22      76.21   97
+list-push-soa                   40.99      38.14      39.00      38.89      38.89      39.67      39.87      39.28      39.35      40.08      40.13   97
+list-pull-aos                   82.07      82.88      83.29      83.09      83.32      83.49      82.82      82.88      83.32      82.60      82.93   97
+list-pull-soa                   62.07      60.40      61.89      61.39      62.43      60.90      60.48      62.80      62.50      61.10      60.38   97
+list-pull-split-nt-1s-soa      125.81     120.60     121.96     122.34     122.86     123.53     123.64     123.67     125.94     124.09     123.69  128
+list-pull-split-nt-2s-soa      122.79     117.16     118.86     119.16     119.56     119.99     120.01     120.03     122.64     120.57     120.39  128
+list-aa-aos                    128.13     127.41     129.31     129.07     129.79     129.63     129.67     129.94     129.12     128.41     129.72  150
+list-aa-soa                    141.60     139.78     141.58     142.16     141.94     141.31     142.37     142.25     142.43     141.40     142.26  150
+list-aa-ria-soa                141.82     134.88     140.15     140.72     141.67     140.51     141.18     141.29     142.97     141.94     143.25  168
+list-aa-pv-soa                 164.79     140.95     159.24     161.78     162.40     163.04     164.69     164.38     165.11     165.75     166.09  168
+=========================   =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =======
+
+
+Skylake, Intel Xeon Gold 6148
+-----------------------------
+
+- Skylake architecture, AVX2, FMA, AVX512
+- 20 cores, 2.4 GHz
+- SMT enabled
+
+memory bandwidth:
+
+- copy-19                  89.7 GB/s
+- copy-19-nt-sl            92.4 GB/s
+- update-19                93.6 GB/s
+
+geometry dimensions:  500x100x100
+
+
+=========================    =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  ===
+kernel                            pipe   blocks-2   blocks-4   blocks-6   blocks-8  blocks-10  blocks-15  blocks-16  blocks-20  blocks-25  blocks-32  RFM
+=========================    =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  ===
+blk-push-aos                    113.01      93.99     108.98     114.65     117.87     119.47     124.95     122.46     129.29     123.87     133.01  197
+blk-push-soa                    100.21      98.87     103.63     105.56     107.02     107.27     111.61     109.83     116.16     110.51     110.29  197
+blk-pull-aos                    118.45     102.54     114.12     117.82     122.69     124.31     130.58     127.85     135.72     129.65     139.94  197
+blk-pull-soa                     82.60      83.36      87.13      88.39      88.84      88.96      92.48      90.93      95.79      91.92      98.64  197
+aa-aos                          171.32     125.43     147.73     157.70     163.35     167.25     175.39     174.20     182.54     173.67     187.76  308
+aa-soa                          180.85     152.39     165.84     152.59     171.90     175.76     184.94     182.34     189.43     180.30     193.54  308
+aa-vec-soa                      208.03     181.51     195.86     203.41     209.08     212.34     224.05     219.49     234.31     225.92     245.22  308
+list-push-aos                   158.81     164.67     162.93     163.05     165.22     164.31     164.66     160.78     164.07     165.19     164.06  177
+list-push-soa                   134.60     110.44     110.17     132.01     132.95     133.46     134.37     134.33     135.12     134.91     137.87  177
+list-pull-aos                   169.61     170.03     170.89     170.90     171.20     171.60     172.09     171.95     169.48     172.08     171.02  177
+list-pull-soa                   120.50     116.73     118.62     118.00     120.99     118.15     117.17     121.41     120.83     120.00     118.74  177
+list-pull-split-nt-1s-soa       225.59     224.18     225.10     226.34     226.01     230.37     227.50     228.42     227.39     231.65     227.35  246
+list-pull-split-nt-2s-soa       219.20     214.63     217.61     218.13     219.07     221.01     219.88     220.09     220.62     221.68     220.58  246
+list-aa-aos                     241.39     239.27     239.53     242.56     242.46     243.00     242.91     242.46     241.24     242.96     241.52  275
+list-aa-soa                     273.73     268.49     268.48     271.79     275.29     274.56     277.18     272.67     274.21     275.24     278.21  275
+list-aa-ria-soa                 288.42     261.89     273.26     284.84     283.88     288.29     290.72     289.81     293.36     290.75     292.93  308
+list-aa-pv-soa                  303.35     267.21     289.18     294.96     294.36     298.16     300.45     301.71     302.37     302.88     304.46  308
+=========================    =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  =========  ===
 
 Licence
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@@ -401,6 +583,19 @@ This work was funded by BMBF, grant no. 01IH15003A (project SKAMPY).
 This work was funded by KONWHIR project OMI4PAPS.
 
 
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