Hi, Some of our clusters uses Gigabit Ethernet and Infiniband. So we are trying to multiplex them.
Thanks and Regards Pooja > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:58:37PM -0400, po...@cc.gatech.edu wrote: > >> I am Pooja working with chaitali on this project. >> The idea behind this is while running a parallelized code ,if a huge >> chunks of serial computation is encountered at that time underlying >> network infrastructure can be used for some other data transfer. >> This increases the network utilization. >> But this (non Mpi) data transfer should not keep Mpi calls blocking. >> So we need to give them priorities. >> Also we are trying to predict a behavior of the code (like if there are >> more MPi calls coming with short interval or if they are coming after >> large interval ) based on previous calls. >> As a result we can make this mechanism more efficient. > > Ok, so you have a Cluster with Infiniband a while the network traffic is > low you want to utilize the Infiniband network for other data transfers > with a lower priority? > > What does this have to do with TCP or are you using TCP over Infiniband? > > Regards > Christian Leber > > -- > http://rettetdieti.vde-uni-mannheim.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >
