Critique of 'Planetary Normal Mode Computation: Parallel Algorithms, Performance, and Reproducibility' by SCC Team from ETH Zurich

Abstract

This report analyzes the reproducibility of the article 'Computing Planetary Interior Normal Modes with A Highly Parallel Polynomial Filtering Eigensolver' by Jia Shi et al. (Shi, 2018). To reproduce the results we perform different weak and strong scaling studies using a series of Mars models. All experimental runs were performed during the SC19 Student Cluster Competition on a four node Intel Skylake cluster. We show that the findings of the original article can be reproduced in a different environment.