On Sep 6, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Bhargava Ramu Kavati wrote:

> As per our last discussion, MPI_INIT(..) uses TCP socket to exchange its 
> service-id/lid with other MPI processes.  I assume this applies irrespective 
> of underlying library used to establish connection i.e libibcm or librdmacm.  
> Please correct me if I am wrong.

It can use librdmacm, but it doesn't have to (and doesn't by default).  
librdmacm uses its own internal communications -- I'm not sure what transport 
layer it uses.  By default, however, OMPI uses a TCP-based connection mechanism.

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