Ok.  Good that there's no oversubscription bug, at least.  :-)

Did you see my off-list mail to you yesterday about building with an external 
copy of hwloc 1.4 to see if that helps?


On Mar 2, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Matthias Jurenz wrote:

> To exclude a possible bug within the LSF component, I rebuilt Open MPI 
> without 
> support for LSF (--without-lsf).
> 
> -> It makes no difference - the latency is still bad: ~1.1us.
> 
> Matthias
> 
> On Friday 02 March 2012 13:50:13 Matthias Jurenz wrote:
>> SORRY, it was obviously a big mistake by me. :-(
>> 
>> Open MPI 1.5.5 was built with LSF support, so when starting an LSF job it's
>> necessary to request at least the number of tasks/cores as used for the
>> subsequent mpirun command. That was not the case - I forgot the bsub's '-n'
>> option to specify the number of task, so only *one* task/core was
>> requested.
>> 
>> Open MPI 1.4.5 was built *without* LSF support, so the supposed misbehavior
>> could not happen with it.
>> 
>> In short, there is no bug in Open MPI 1.5.x regarding to the detection of
>> oversubscription. Sorry for any confusion!
>> 
>> Matthias
>> 
>> On Tuesday 28 February 2012 13:36:56 Matthias Jurenz wrote:
>>> When using Open MPI v1.4.5 I get ~1.1us. That's the same result as I get
>>> with Open MPI v1.5.x using mpi_yield_when_idle=0.
>>> So I think there is a bug in Open MPI (v1.5.4 and v1.5.5rc2) regarding to
>>> the automatic performance mode selection.
>>> 
>>> When enabling the degraded performance mode for Open MPI 1.4.5
>>> (mpi_yield_when_idle=1) I get ~1.8us latencies.
>>> 
>>> Matthias
>>> 
>>> On Tuesday 28 February 2012 06:20:28 Christopher Samuel wrote:
>>>> On 13/02/12 22:11, Matthias Jurenz wrote:
>>>>> Do you have any idea? Please help!
>>>> 
>>>> Do you see the same bad latency in the old branch (1.4.5) ?
>>>> 
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Chris
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