Add some documentation about running the benches

README.org

@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ And then you can see the =configure= options
 ../../configure --help
 #+end_src
 
-** Benchmarks
+** Benches
 
 The script =tools/configure-benches.sh= can be used to create
-a couple of configurations for benchmarks:
+a couple of configurations for benches:
 
 #+begin_src sh :exports results :results verbatim org   :results verbatim drawer replace output 
 awk '/begin +doc/,/end +doc/ { print $NL }' tools/configure-benches.sh |
@@ -92,3 +92,41 @@ sed "s/^# //; s/^# *$//; /^$/d"
   and it should use a CUDA aware MPI implementation.
   It also only uses the routines that involve dgemm.
 :end:
+
+In order to generate the benches just create a suitable directory for it
+
+#+begin_src sh :eval no
+mkdir -p build/benches
+cd buid/benches
+../../tools/configure-benches.sh CXX=g++ ...
+#+end_src
+
+and you will get a Makefile together with several project folders.
+You can either configure all projects with =make all= or
+then go in each folder.
+
+Notice that you can give a path for ctf for all of them by doing
+#+begin_src sh :eval no
+../../tools/configure-benches.sh --with-ctf=/absolute/path/to/ctf
+#+end_src
+
+* Running benches
+
+** Main benchmark
+
+The main benchmark gets built in =bench/main= and is used to run an
+atrip run with random tensors.
+
+A common run of this script will be the following
+
+#+begin_src sh
+bench/main \
+  --no 100 \
+  --nv 1000 \
+  --mod 1 \
+  --% 0 \
+  --dist group \
+  --nocheckpoint \
+  --max-iterations 1000
+#+end_src
+

bench/main.cxx

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 int main(int argc, char** argv) {
   MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
 
-  size_t checkpoint_it;
+  size_t checkpoint_it, max_iterations;
   int no(10), nv(100), itMod(-1), percentageMod(10);
   float checkpoint_percentage;
   bool
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv) {
   app.add_option("--no", no, "Occupied orbitals");
   app.add_option("--nv", nv, "Virtual orbitals");
   app.add_option("--mod", itMod, "Iteration modifier");
+  app.add_option("--max-iterations",
+                 max_iterations,
+                 "Maximum number of iterations to run");
   app.add_flag("--keep-vppph", keepVppph, "Do not delete Vppph");
   app.add_flag("--nochrono", nochrono, "Do not print chrono");
   app.add_flag("--rank-round-robin", rankRoundRobin, "Do rank round robin");
@@ -199,6 +202,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv) {
        .with_iterationMod(itMod)
        .with_percentageMod(percentageMod)
        .with_tuplesDistribution(tuplesDistribution)
+       .with_maxIterations(max_iterations)
        // checkpoint options
        .with_checkpointAtEveryIteration(checkpoint_it)
        .with_checkpointAtPercentage(checkpoint_percentage)

configure.ac

@@ -164,8 +164,7 @@ AC_TYPE_SIZE_T
 dnl -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 dnl CHECK CTF
 if test xYES = x${BUILD_CTF}; then
-  AC_MSG_WARN([Sorry, building CTF not supported yet provide a build path
+  AC_MSG_WARN([You will have to do make ctf before building the project.])
-                      with --with-ctf=path/to/ctf/installation])
 else
   CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I${LIBCTF_CPATH}"
   LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L${LIBCTF_LD_LIBRARY_PATH} -lctf"

include/atrip/Atrip.hpp

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ namespace atrip {
       ADD_ATTRIBUTE(bool, rankRoundRobin, false)
       ADD_ATTRIBUTE(bool, chrono, false)
       ADD_ATTRIBUTE(bool, barrier, false)
-      ADD_ATTRIBUTE(int, maxIterations, 0)
+      ADD_ATTRIBUTE(size_t, maxIterations, 0)
       ADD_ATTRIBUTE(int, iterationMod, -1)
       ADD_ATTRIBUTE(int, percentageMod, -1)
       ADD_ATTRIBUTE(TuplesDistribution, tuplesDistribution, NAIVE)

src/atrip/Atrip.cxx

@@ -773,6 +773,8 @@ Atrip::Output Atrip::run(Atrip::Input<F> const& in) {
     Atrip::chrono["iterations"].stop();
     // ITERATION END %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%{{{1
 
+    if (in.maxIterations != 0 && i >= in.maxIterations) break;
+
   }
     // END OF MAIN LOOP