Hi,
I usually use infiniband network, where openmpi-1.7.3 and 1.6.5 works fine. The other days, I had a chance to use tcp network(1GbE) and I noticed that my application with openmpi-1.7.3 was quite slower than openmpi-1.6.5. So, I did OSU MPI Bandwidth Test v3.1.1 as shown below, which shows bandwidth for smaller size(< 1024) is very slow compared with 1.6.5. In addition, the latency for larger size( >65536 ) seems to be strange. Does this depend on our local environment or some mca parameter would be necesarry? I'm afraid that something is wrong with tcp of openmpi-1.7.3. openmpi-1.7.3: [mishima@node07 OMB-3.1.1]$ mpirun -np 2 -host node07,node08 -mca tbl ^openib osu_bw # OSU MPI Bandwidth Test v3.1.1 # Size Bandwidth (MB/s) 1 0.00 2 0.01 4 0.01 8 0.03 16 0.05 32 0.10 64 0.32 128 0.37 256 0.87 512 5.97 1024 20.00 2048 182.87 4096 202.53 8192 215.14 16384 225.16 32768 228.58 65536 115.23 131072 198.24 262144 193.38 524288 233.03 1048576 227.31 2097152 233.07 4194304 233.25 [mishima@node07 OMB-3.1.1]$ mpirun -np 2 -host node07,node08 -mca btl ^openib osu_latency # OSU MPI Latency Test v3.1.1 # Size Latency (us) 0 19.23 1 19.57 2 19.52 4 19.88 8 20.44 16 20.38 32 20.78 64 21.14 128 21.75 256 23.20 512 26.12 1024 31.54 2048 41.72 4096 64.55 8192 107.52 16384 179.23 32768 251.58 65536 20689.68 131072 21179.79 262144 20168.56 524288 22984.83 1048576 25994.54 2097152 30929.55 4194304 38028.48 openmpi-1.6.5: [mishima@node07 OMB-3.1.1]$ mpirun -np 2 -host node07,node08 -mca tbl ^openib osu_bw # OSU MPI Bandwidth Test v3.1.1 # Size Bandwidth (MB/s) 1 0.22 2 0.45 4 0.89 8 1.77 16 3.57 32 7.15 64 14.28 128 28.58 256 57.17 512 96.44 1024 152.38 2048 182.84 4096 203.17 8192 215.13 16384 225.05 32768 100.58 65536 225.24 131072 182.92 262144 192.82 524288 212.92 1048576 233.35 2097152 233.72 4194304 233.89 [mishima@node07 OMB-3.1.1]$ mpirun -np 2 -host node07,node08 -mca btl ^openib osu_latency # OSU MPI Latency Test v3.1.1 # Size Latency (us) 0 17.24 1 17.30 2 17.29 4 17.30 8 24.32 16 17.24 32 17.80 64 17.91 128 19.08 256 20.81 512 22.83 1024 27.82 2048 39.54 4096 52.66 8192 97.70 16384 143.23 32768 215.02 65536 481.08 131072 800.64 262144 1475.12 524288 2698.62 1048576 4992.31 2097152 9558.96 4194304 20801.50 Regards, Tetsuya Mishima