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Poor DragonHPC performance for task submission #93

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@BenCarter44

Hello Aymen and others,

After running into performance problems with DragonHPC on a different project, I created a small benchmark that tests task throughput.

See the code here: https://github.com/radical-cybertools/digital.twins/blob/devel/perf/af.py

I'm testing the overall task throughput (func calls per second) that can run. Right now, switching to rhapsody's Dragon backend results in a throughput cut of about 22x.

On Perlmutter, 1 compute node:

ConcurrentExecutionBackend: runs 2200 tasks per second
DragonExecutionBackend: 100 tasks per second

Note, though I use AsyncFlow, I'm focusing on backend throughput.

The importance is that in a digital twin context, we have many inference tasks that are spawned continuously. Then, combined with simulation tasks, surrogate training tasks, and other tasks, dragon execution on task throughput quickly becomes a bottleneck. (In the digital twin application, I've been measuring about 1 second latency for inference task submission)

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