Re: [OMPI users] IB Memory Requirements, adjusting for reduced memory consumption

2012-02-15 Thread Shamis, Pavel
You may find additional information here : https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1900 Using the information there you may calculate actual memory consumption. Pavel (Pasha) Shamis --- Application Performance Tools Group Computer Science and Math Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory On

Re: [OMPI users] IB Memory Requirements, adjusting for reduced memory consumption

2012-01-15 Thread Yevgeny Kliteynik
On 13-Jan-12 12:23 AM, Nathan Hjelm wrote: > I would start by adjusting btl_openib_receive_queues . The default uses > a per-peer QP which can eat up a lot of memory. I recommend using no > per-peer and several shared receive queues. > We use S,4096,1024:S,12288,512:S,65536,512 And here's the FAQ

Re: [OMPI users] IB Memory Requirements, adjusting for reduced memory consumption

2012-01-12 Thread Nathan Hjelm
I would start by adjusting btl_openib_receive_queues . The default uses a per-peer QP which can eat up a lot of memory. I recommend using no per-peer and several shared receive queues. We use S,4096,1024:S,12288,512:S,65536,512 -Nathan On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, V. Ram wrote: Open MPI IB Gurus, I

[OMPI users] IB Memory Requirements, adjusting for reduced memory consumption

2012-01-12 Thread V. Ram
Open MPI IB Gurus, I have some slightly older InfiniBand-equipped nodes with IB which have less RAM than we'd like, and on which we tend to run jobs that can span 16-32 nodes of this type. The jobs themselves tend to run on the heavy side in terms of their own memory requirements. When we used t