Re: [Meep-discuss] MPI efficiency

2009-01-14 Thread Bruck Roman
2009 18:22 An: Nizamov Shawkat Cc: meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu Betreff: Re: [Meep-discuss] MPI efficiency Nizamov Shawkat wrote: So the first question is - what mpi efficiency do you observe on your systems? I have observed excellent acceleration. Dual-core systems have been near-linear

[Meep-discuss] MPI efficiency

2009-01-12 Thread Nizamov Shawkat
Dear Meep users ! Lately I was trying to implement pythonic interface for libmeep. My current goal is enabling mpi feature of libmeep in python scripts. While enabling mpi is as straight as just calling mpi_init with correct arguments, the actual mpi acceleration do not meet my expectations. I

Re: [Meep-discuss] MPI efficiency

2009-01-12 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Nizamov Shawkat wrote: So the first question is - what mpi efficiency do you observe on your systems? I have observed excellent acceleration. Dual-core systems have been near-linear, and running on 8 machines with a GigE interconnect I got about 6x acceleration. The important thing is to make

Re: [Meep-discuss] MPI efficiency

2009-01-12 Thread Zheng Li
Nizamov Shawkat wrote: Dear Meep users ! Lately I was trying to implement pythonic interface for libmeep. My current goal is enabling mpi feature of libmeep in python scripts. While enabling mpi is as straight as just calling mpi_init with correct arguments, the actual mpi acceleration do