Working with a CellBlade cluster (QS22), the requirement is to have one instance of the executable running on each socket of the blade (there are 2 sockets). The application is of the 'domain decomposition' type, and each instance is required to often send/receive data with both the remote blades and the neighbor socket.
Question is : which specification must be used for the mca btl component to force 1) shmem type messages when communicating with this neighbor socket, while 2) using openib to communicate with the remote blades ? Is '-mca btl sm,openib,self' suitable for this ? Also, which debug flags could be used to crosscheck that the messages are _actually_ going thru the right channel for a given channel, please ? We are currently using OpenMPI 1.2.5 shipped with RHEL5.2 (ppc64). Which version do you think is currently the most optimised for these processors and problem type ? Should we go towards OpenMPI 1.2.8 instead ? Or even try some OpenMPI 1.3 nightly build ? Thanks in advance for your help, Gilbert.
