On 2010-12-03, at 8:46AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
> Another option to try is to install the openmx drivers on your system and run
> open MPI with mx support. This should be much better perf than tcp.
We've tried this on a big GigE cluster (in fact, Brice Goglin was playing with
it on our system) -- it's not really an answer. It didn't work past a small
number of nodes, and the performance gains were fairly small. IntelMPIs
Direct Ethernet Transport did work on larger nodecounts, but again it was a
pretty modest effect (few percent decrease in pingpong latencies, no
discernable bandwidth improvements).
- Jonathan
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Jonathan Dursi <[email protected]> SciNet, Compute/Calcul Canada
