Re: [Beowulf] bizarre scaling behavior on a Nehalem

2009-08-14 Thread Mikhail Kuzminsky
In message from Bill Broadley b...@cse.ucdavis.edu (Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:09:24 -0700): Tom Elken wrote: To add some details to what Christian says, the HPC Challenge version of STREAM uses dynamic arrays and is hard to optimize. I don't know what's best with current compiler versions, but you

Re: [Beowulf] bizarre scaling behavior on a Nehalem

2009-08-14 Thread Mikhail Kuzminsky
In message from Bill Broadley b...@cse.ucdavis.edu (Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:09:24 -0700): Do I unerstand correctly that this results are for 4 cores 4 openmp threads ? And what is DDR3 RAM: DDR3/1066 ? Mikhail I tried open64-4.2.2 with those flags and on a nehalem single socket: $ opencc

Re: [Beowulf] bizarre scaling behavior on a Nehalem

2009-08-14 Thread Bill Broadley
Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote: In message from Bill Broadley b...@cse.ucdavis.edu (Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:09:24 -0700): Do I unerstand correctly that this results are for 4 cores 4 openmp threads ? And what is DDR3 RAM: DDR3/1066 ? 4 cores and 8 openmp threads. 4 threads is slightly faster:

[Beowulf] Wake on LAN supported on both built-in interfaces ... ??

2009-08-14 Thread David Mathog
richard.wa...@comcast.net wrote: I have a head node that am trying to get WOL set up on. It is a SuperMicro motherboard (X8DTi-F) with two built in interfaces (eth0, eth1). I am told by SuperMicro support that both interfaces support WOL fully, but when I probe them with ethtool only

RE: [Beowulf] bizarre scaling behavior on a Nehalem

2009-08-14 Thread Tom Elken
On Behalf Of Bill Broadley I put DDR3-1333 in the machine, but the bios seems to want to run them at 1066, How many dimms per memory channel do you have? My understanding (which may be a few months old) is that if you have more than one dimm per memory channel, DDR3-1333 dimms will run at

Re: [Beowulf] bizarre scaling behavior on a Nehalem

2009-08-14 Thread Mikhail Kuzminsky
In message from Tom Elken tom.el...@qlogic.com (Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:57:53 -0700): On Behalf Of Bill Broadley I put DDR3-1333 in the machine, but the bios seems to want to run them at 1066, How many dimms per memory channel do you have? My understanding (which may be a few months old) is

Re: [Beowulf] bizarre scaling behavior on a Nehalem

2009-08-14 Thread Mikhail Kuzminsky
In message from Bill Broadley b...@cse.ucdavis.edu (Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:13:21 -0700): Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote: Your results look excellent, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are running at 1333. I have 12-18 GB/s on 4 threads of stream/ifort w/DDR3-1066 on dual E5520 server. But it works

[Beowulf] METIS Partitioning within program

2009-08-14 Thread amjad ali
Hi all, For my parallel code to run, I first make grid partitioning on command line then for running the parallel code I give hard-code the path of METIS-partition files. It is very cumbersome if I need to run code with different grids and for different -np value. Please tell me how to call METIS