RE: [openib-general] RFC userspace / MPI multicast support

2006-04-21 Thread Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)
> Greg Lindahl wrote: > >>Also, is IPoIB always setup when running MPI ? > > > > That's an easy one: No. > > Do the ones that don't have ipoib use a separate IP > (Ethernet) network? Yes. ___ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http

Re: [openib-general] RFC userspace / MPI multicast support

2006-04-21 Thread Sean Hefty
Greg Lindahl wrote: Also, is IPoIB always setup when running MPI ? That's an easy one: No. Do the ones that don't have ipoib use a separate IP (Ethernet) network? - Sean ___ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/ma

Re: [openib-general] RFC userspace / MPI multicast support

2006-04-20 Thread Sean Hefty
Matt Leininger wrote: Requiring IPoIB to be running for MPI to work is a new dependency that users are not accustomed to. Maybe we need to do this through the cm rather than rdma_cm. We shouldn't require IPoIB to be running for MPI to use IB. Use of these new features already carries with i

RE: [openib-general] RFC userspace / MPI multicast support

2006-04-20 Thread Matt Leininger
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 13:09 -0700, Sean Hefty wrote: > > Not always. For most of the older VAPI based stack we never turned on > >IPoIB (or did and it didn't work). I don't think we want to assume > >IPoIB is always set up when MPI is running. > > This means that you can't use the rdma_cm to es

Re: [openib-general] RFC userspace / MPI multicast support

2006-04-20 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:00:43PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > Also, is IPoIB always setup when running MPI ? That's an easy one: No. -- greg ___ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general

RE: [openib-general] RFC userspace / MPI multicast support

2006-04-20 Thread Sean Hefty
> Not always. For most of the older VAPI based stack we never turned on >IPoIB (or did and it didn't work). I don't think we want to assume >IPoIB is always set up when MPI is running. This means that you can't use the rdma_cm to establish connections. - Sean __

RE: [openib-general] RFC userspace / MPI multicast support

2006-04-20 Thread Matt Leininger
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 13:00 -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 12:58, Sean Hefty wrote: > > >On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 15:05, Sean Hefty wrote: > > >> I'd like to get some feedback regarding the following approach to > > >> supporting > > >> multicast groups in userspace, and in part

RE: [openib-general] RFC userspace / MPI multicast support

2006-04-20 Thread Caitlin Bestler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to get some feedback regarding the following > approach to supporting multicast groups in userspace, and in > particular for MPI. Based on side conversations, I need to > know if this approach would meet the needs of MPI developers. > > To join / leave a multic

RE: [openib-general] RFC userspace / MPI multicast support

2006-04-20 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 12:58, Sean Hefty wrote: > >On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 15:05, Sean Hefty wrote: > >> I'd like to get some feedback regarding the following approach to > >> supporting > >> multicast groups in userspace, and in particular for MPI. Based on side > >> conversations, I need to know i

Re: [openib-general] RFC userspace / MPI multicast support

2006-04-20 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Hi Sean, On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 15:05, Sean Hefty wrote: > I'd like to get some feedback regarding the following approach to supporting > multicast groups in userspace, and in particular for MPI. Based on side > conversations, I need to know if this approach would meet the needs of MPI > developer

[openib-general] RFC userspace / MPI multicast support

2006-04-19 Thread Sean Hefty
I'd like to get some feedback regarding the following approach to supporting multicast groups in userspace, and in particular for MPI. Based on side conversations, I need to know if this approach would meet the needs of MPI developers. To join / leave a multicast group, my proposal is to add the