On Mar 11, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Jayabrata Chakrabarty wrote:
Hi I have been looking for information on how to use multiple
Gigabit Ethernet Interface for MPI communication.
So far what i have found out is i have to use mca_btl_tcp.
But what i wish to know, is what IP Address to assign to each
Network Interface. I also wish to know if there will be any change
in the format of "hostfile"
I have two Gigabit Ethernet Interface on a cluster of 5 nodes at
present.
It seems to me that an easier approach would be to bond the ethernet
interfaces together at the Unix/Linux level and then you have only
one ethernet interface to worry about in MPI. Our Operton-based
cluster shipped with that setup in SUSE Linux. When I rebuilt it
with Debian Linux I configured the ethernet interface bonding myself
using references I found via google. My master node has three
physical interfaces and two ip addresses, all the rest have two
physical interfaces and one ip address.
I have not tested throughput to see if I choose the best type of
bonding, but the choices were clear enough.
michael.
