I have some Netpipe graphs of OpenMPI and Mviapich on OpenIB gen2 on
Opteron systems, one with PCI-X IB cards, and the other with PCI-Express
DDR IB cards.
I'd like to chat with someone who fill me in a bit on what's going on
with performance, and how the BTL for IB is implemented. One thing I'd
like to try is modifying the kernel to allow 95% of physical memory to
be registered for IB, and see how much of a difference this makes.
I am also toying with the idea of writing an OpenIB BTL module for
Netpipe, so I can evaluate the BTL layer performance directly without
any MPI overhead.
I also get the following messages on startup:
libibverbs: Warning: no userspace device-specific driver found for
uverbs0 driver search path: /usr/lib/infiniband
[0,1,1][btl_openib_component.c:267:mca_btl_openib_component_init]
No hca's found on this host!
Something strange is going on, because it is finding at least 1 IB
port, given the performance numbers.
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Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org
Somone asked me why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/)
software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer:
"Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it
because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why
I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shultz
