Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > For performance of mpich and lam, I cannot comment on that. > > I've heard rumors of lam's advantages, but nothing convincing.
The only way to verify such a thing is to run standard benchmarks on a true cluster and check the wall clock. LAM has some nice optimizations which I don't think mpich implements on clusters. Though, mpich has some legacy code for optimized stuff on legacy supercomputers... It's quite easy for us to run such a benchmark against these libs; we have both libs installed at the moment. We leave it to the programmers to use one of them, but I actively test only LAM. Such a study will also be valuable for recommending the software to use to parallel code programmers here, and on other similar Beowulf class systems. Thanks, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
