On Oct 9, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Sangamesh B wrote:
I've tested GROMACS for a single process (mpirun -np 1): Here are the results:OpenMPI : 120m 6s MPICH2 : 67m 44s
That seems to indicate that something else is going on -- with -np 1, there should be no MPI communication, right? I wonder if the memory allocator performance is coming into play here.
Try re-configuring/re-building Open MPI with --without-memory-manager. -- Jeff Squyres Cisco Systems
