Some benchmarks done with the software correlator

====== SFXC performance======

A couple of test performed on the adam cluster (6 nodes with one dual-core opteron 246 each).

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A) The correlation time as a function of the number of channels {{:scarie:channel_bench.pdf|pdf}}.\\
B) The correlation time as a function of the number of the number of stations {{:scarie:stations_bench.pdf|pdf}}.\\
C) The correlation time as a function of the number of CPU cores {{:scarie:core_bench.pdf|pdf}}.\\

====== SFXV VS DiFX ======

Some benchmarks comparing the performance of SFXC and DiFX, the benchmarks were performed on Adam.

|                                              ^ SFXC             ^ DiFX          ^
^ 7 stations @ 256 Mb/s (1m data)<sup>1</sup>  | 11m028s          | 11m07s        |
^ 4 stations @ 256 Mb/s (1m data)<sup>1</sup>  | 5m03s            | 4m41s         |
^ 6 stations @ 128 Mb/s (40s data)<sup>2</sup> | 4m29s            | 6m14s         |
<sup>1</sup> Data from experiment N08C1 (2 bits, 2 polarizations, 8 channels @256 Mb/s)\\
<sup>2</sup> Data from experiment RDV70 (1 bits, 1 polarization, 8 channels @128 Mb/s)