Hello all, on our new AMD cluster (AMD Opteron 6274, 2,2GHz) we get very bad latencies (~1.5us) when performing 0-byte p2p communication on one single node using the Open MPI sm BTL. When using Platform MPI we get ~0.5us latencies which is pretty good. The bandwidth results are similar for both MPI implementations (~3,3GB/s) - this is okay.
One node has 64 cores and 64Gb RAM where it doesn't matter how many ranks allocated by the application. We get similar results with different number of ranks. We are using Open MPI 1.5.4 which is built by gcc 4.3.4 without any special configure options except the installation prefix and the location of the LSF stuff. As mentioned at http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=sm we tried to use /dev/shm instead of /tmp for the session directory, but it had no effect. Furthermore, we tried the current release candidate 1.5.5rc1 of Open MPI which provides an option to use the SysV shared memory (-mca shmem sysv) - also this results in similar poor latencies. Do you have any idea? Please help! Thanks, Matthias
