Hello OpenMPI We area seriously considering deploying OpenMPI 1.6.5 for production (and 1.7.2 for testing) on HPC clusters which consists of nodes with *different types of networking interfaces*.
1) Interface selection We are using OpenMPI 1.6.5 and was wondering how one would go about selecting* at run time* which networking interface to use for MPI communications in case that both IB, 10GigE and 1 GigE are present. This issues arises in a cluster with nodes that are equipped with different types of interfaces: *Some *have both IB-QDR or FDR and 10- and 1-GigE. Others *only* have 10-GigE and 1-GigE and simply others only 1-GigE. 2) OpenMPI 1.6.5 level of support for Heterogeneous Fabric Can OpenMPI support running an MPI application using a mix of nodes with all of the above networking interface combinations ? 2.a) Can the same MPI code (SPMD or MPMD) have a subset of its ranks run on nodes with QDR IB and another subset on FDR IB simultaneously? These are Mellanox QDR and FDR HCAs. Mellanox mentioned to us that they support both QDR and FDR HCAs attached to the same IB subnet. Do you think MVAPICH2 will have any issue with this? 2.b) Can the same MPI code (SPMD or MPMD) have a subset of its ranks run on nodes with IB and another subset over 10GiGE simultaneously? That is imagine nodes I1, I2, ..., IN having say QDR HCAs and nodes G1, G2, GM having only 10GigE interfaces. Could we have the same MPI application run across both types of nodes? Or should there be say 2 communicators with one of them explicitly overlaid on a IB only subnet and the other on a 10GigE only subnet? Please let me know if the above are not very clear. Thank you much
