Project Meeting 2019.05.31

Verification

• See the verification table for the current summaries
• Updates summaries for shadow pricing since we also ran a 100% multiprocessing example
• Issues we fixed since our last call, which are in pull request PR#261
  • Updates to non man tour freq expressions
  • Updates to atwork tour freq expressions
  • Updates to tour stop freq expressions
  • Updates to tour and trip mode expressions
• The verification results of these submodels are better as a result
• Added 100% sample multiprocessing example run setup to the user documentation
• Published (released) an updated version - https://pypi.org/project/activitysim

Planning Applications preparation

• Refreshed the multiprocessing runs for the two presentations
• Full scale model runs
  • 28 core Windows server 165 minutes
  • 64 core Windows cloud server 170 minutes
  • 128 core Windows cloud server 135 minutes
  • 64 core Linux cloud server 71 minutes
  • 128 core Linux cloud server 51 minutes
• OSX and Linux running faster than Windows
• Python 2 running faster than Python 3
• Experimented a bit with Intel MKL library settings on Windows
• Still working on understanding these runtime differences
• Updated the Azure run setup scripts
• @Discuss remaining preparation for the workshop