Re: [OMPI devel] Hierarchical Collectives Query

2008-01-24 Thread Edgar Gabriel
Rolf, Whoowh! That's actually good news, since in our own tests hierarch is always slower. But this might be due to various reasons, including the fact, that we only have two cores per node. BTW: I actually would expect IMB test to have worse performance for hierarch compared to many other be

[OMPI devel] Hierarchical Collectives Query

2008-01-24 Thread Rolf Vandevaart
I am curious if anyone is doing any work currently on the hierarchical collectives. I ask this because I just did some runs on a cluster made up of 4 servers with 4 processors per server. I used TCP over IB. I was running with np=16 and using the IMB benchmark to test MPI_Bcast. What I am