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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 09:34:49 -0400
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Subject: Re: the performance of UIMA AS
From: Eddie Epstein <eaepstein@gmail.com>
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An intro to UIMA AS at

http://uima.apache.org/doc-uimaas-what.html#UIMA%20AS%20-%20Example%20Appli=
cation%20Scenarios

Includes the comment: Scaleout efficiency is determined by the ratio
of the processing done by the scaled out analysis engines to the
serialization overhead in the services. That said, there are different
UIMA AS configurations that will minimize overhead; see the last
example on that web page.

Eddie

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:46 AM, LinTong <pcu84424@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hallo everybody
>
> Now I am investigating UIMA AS. I'm very confused by the poor
> performance of UIMA-AS. I run the example AS descriptor
> MeetingDetectorTAE. No matter
> Deploy_MeetingDetectorTAE_3MeetingAnnotators.xml or
> Deploy_MeetingDetectorTAE_Sync_3Instances.xml, there is no speedup at
> all. Also I tried Deploy_MeetingDetectorTAE_RemoteRoomNumber.xml and
> deployed several instances of service RemoteRoomNumber. But still no
> speedup. My sample includes 450 documents. Actually MeetingDetectorTAE
> costs appx. 1000ms in CPE. Deploy_MeetingDetectorTAE.xml costs 5000ms
> in UIMA AS while all components are on the same machine. If I run
> Deploy_MeetingDetectorTAE_RemoteRoomNumber.xml and service
> RemoteRoomNumber on different computer, it takes almost 20000ms. I
> know these is overhead including de/serialisation, but there is no
> reason that the performance is so poor. Does anybody have idea about
> my problem? Did I make any stupid mistake?
>
> BTW, when I enable the flag named async, system gives the following
> debug information back. The analysis time and idle time seem quite
> strange. Does my AE only cost c.a. 280ms?(the collection reader I used
> costs c.a. 2000ms).
>
>
> INFO: Controller: [Meeting Detector TAE] Delegate <<Meeting Detector
> TAE>> Stats:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Total Number CASes Processed: 257
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Total CAS Deserialization Time: 327,602 ms
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Total CAS Serialization Time: 93,601 ms
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Total Time Spent In Analysis: 280,802 ms
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Max Serialization Time: 15,6 ms
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Max Deserialization Time: 15,6 ms
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Max Analysis Time: 202,801 ms
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Total Idle Time: 1.625,275 ms
> Completed 451 documents; 593984 characters
> Time Elapsed : 4808 ms
>
>
> Thank you so much if somebody could help me !
>
> --
> Best Regards
> LinTong(Pierre)
>