Re: [OMPI users] Odd behavior with slots=4

2007-03-29 Thread Warner Yuen
ar 29, 2007, at 9:00 AM, users-requ...@open-mpi.org wrote: Message: 1 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:19:15 -0400 From: George Bosilca Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Odd behavior with slots=4 To: Open MPI Users Message-ID: <2a58cf38-0fc4-4289-85e1-315376540...@cs.utk.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charse

Re: [OMPI users] Odd behavior with slots=4

2007-03-28 Thread George Bosilca
There are multiple answers possible here. One is related to the over- subscription of your cluster, but I expect that there are at least 4 cores per node if you want to use the slots=4 option. The real question is what is the communication pattern in this benchmark ? and how this match the d

Re: [OMPI users] Odd behavior with slots=4

2007-03-28 Thread Götz Waschk
On 3/28/07, Warner Yuen wrote: variation 1: hostname real0m35.391s variation 2: hostname slots=4 real0m45.698s variation 3: hostname slots=2 real0m38.761s Hi Warner, how many nodes does your cluster have? I assume it is using only one process per node by default. With slots=4 yo

[OMPI users] Odd behavior with slots=4

2007-03-28 Thread Warner Yuen
Curious performance when using OpenMPI 1.2 to run Amber 9 on my Xserve Xeon 5100 cluster. Each cluster node is a dual socket, dual- core system. The cluster is also running with Myrinet 2000 with MX. I'm just running some tests with one of Amber's benchmarks. It seems that my hostfiles effec