Re: [OMPI users] knem/openmpi performance?

2013-07-18 Thread Elken, Tom
> "Elken, Tom" writes: > > there is a kcopy module > > that assists shared memory MPI bandwidth in a way similar to knem. > > Somewhat OT, but is it documented? I went looking some time ago, and > couldn't find anything more useful than the source. [Tom] Strangely no. Though there were some ma

Re: [OMPI users] knem/openmpi performance?

2013-07-18 Thread Iliev, Hristo
> -Original Message- > From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] > On Behalf Of Dave Love > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 1:22 PM > To: Open MPI Users > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] knem/openmpi performance? > > Paul Kapinos writes: > > > Jeff, I would turn the qu

Re: [OMPI users] max. message size

2013-07-18 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
I'm assuming that you are referring to the fact that MPI uses an "int" to specify the "length" of a message (i.e., the number of items to be sent and received), like this: MPI_Send(buffer, count, datatype, ...) "count" is an int, which means that it has a max value of INT_MAX, which, on toda

Re: [OMPI users] knem/openmpi performance?

2013-07-18 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 18/07/2013 13:23, Dave Love a écrit : > Mark Dixon writes: > >> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Elken, Tom wrote: >> ... >>> Hope these anecdotes are relevant to Open MPI users considering knem. >> ... >> >> Brilliantly useful, thanks! It certainly looks like it may be greatly >> significant for some appl

Re: [OMPI users] knem/openmpi performance?

2013-07-18 Thread Dave Love
Mark Dixon writes: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Elken, Tom wrote: > ... >> Hope these anecdotes are relevant to Open MPI users considering knem. > ... > > Brilliantly useful, thanks! It certainly looks like it may be greatly > significant for some applications. Worth looking into. > > All the best, > >

Re: [OMPI users] knem/openmpi performance?

2013-07-18 Thread Dave Love
"Elken, Tom" writes: >> I was hoping that someone might have some examples of real application >> behaviour rather than micro benchmarks. It can be crazy hard to get that >> information from users. > [Tom] > I don't have direct performance information on knem, but with Intel's > (formerly QLogic

Re: [OMPI users] knem/openmpi performance?

2013-07-18 Thread Dave Love
Paul Kapinos writes: > Jeff, I would turn the question the other way around: > > - are there any penalties when using KNEM? Bull should be able to comment on that -- they turn it on by default in their proprietary OMPI derivative -- but I doubt I can get much of a story on it. Mellanox ship it

Re: [OMPI users] max. message size

2013-07-18 Thread mohammad assadsolimani
Dear Mike, Thank you for your response. I use this program http://reduze.hepforge.org/ I did not rite its code myself.Did I understand you right? You mean I have to use the new version of OMPI namely: OMPI 1.7 because the version which I use is: mpirun (Open MPI) 1.5.5 What is IB ? thank you

Re: [OMPI users] max. message size

2013-07-18 Thread mohammad assadsolimani
Dear Changsheng, thank you very much for your help. Since I did not the code, and use it I have to see more precise in the code. But your code can help me definitely. Thank you again Zitat von users-requ...@open-mpi.org: -- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:58:

[OMPI users] Multi-program between Java and C/Fortran...

2013-07-18 Thread Andre Dozier
I'm interested in connecting new Java programs with legacy programs written in C and Fortran using MPI (so that they are machine independent and parallel). To try this out at first, I was hoping to simply Send arrays of basic datatypes (integer, floats, etc.) from a Java program to a simple C o