Source code for pylops.utils.multiproc

import time


[docs]def scalability_test(Op, x, workers=[1, 2, 4], forward=True): r"""Scalability test. Small auxiliary routine to test the performance of operators using ``multiprocessing``. This helps identifying the maximum number of workers beyond which no performance gain is observed. Parameters ---------- Op : :obj:`pylops.LinearOperator` Operator to test. It must allow for multiprocessing. x : :obj:`numpy.ndarray`, optional Input vector. workers : :obj:`list`, optional Number of workers to test out. forward : :obj:`bool`, optional Apply forward (``True``) or adjoint (``False``) Returns ------- compute_times : :obj:`list` Compute times as function of workers speedup : :obj:`list` Speedup as function of workers """ compute_times = [] speedup = [] for nworkers in workers: print("Working with %d workers..." % nworkers) # update number of workers in operator Op.nproc = nworkers # run forward/adjoint computation starttime = time.time() if forward: _ = Op.matvec(x) else: _ = Op.rmatvec(x) elapsedtime = time.time() - starttime compute_times.append(elapsedtime) speedup.append(compute_times[0] / elapsedtime) Op.pool.close() return compute_times, speedup