I have a test rig comprising 2 i7 systems with Melanox III HCA 10G cards running Centos 5.7 Kernel 2.6.18-274 Open MPI 1.4.3 MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.5.3-1.0.0.2 (OFED-1.5.3-1.0.0.2): On a Cisco 24 pt switch
Normal performance is: $ mpirun --mca btl openib,self -n 2 -hostfile mpi.hosts PingPong results in: Max rate = 958.388867 MB/sec Min latency = 4.529953 usec and: $ mpirun --mca btl tcp,self -n 2 -hostfile mpi.hosts PingPong Max rate = 653.547293 MB/sec Min latency = 19.550323 usec My application exchanges about a gig of data between the processes with 2 sender and 2 consumer processes on each node with 1 additional controler process on the starting node. The program splits the data into 64K blocks and uses non blocking sends and receives with busy/sleep loops to monitor progress until completion. My problem is I see better performance under IPoIB then I do on native IB (RDMA_CM). My understanding is that IPoIB is limited to about 1G/s so I am at a loss to know why it is faster. These 2 configurations are equivelant (about 8-10 seconds per cycle) mpirun --mca btl_openib_flags 2 --mca mpi_leave_pinned 1 --mca btl tcp,self -H vh2,vh1 -np 9 --bycore prog mpirun --mca btl_openib_flags 3 --mca mpi_leave_pinned 1 --mca btl tcp,self -H vh2,vh1 -np 9 --bycore prog And this one produces similar run times but seems to degrade with repeated cycles: mpirun --mca btl_openib_eager_limit 64 --mca mpi_leave_pinned 1 --mca btl openib,self -H vh2,vh1 -np 9 --bycore prog Other btl_openib_flags settings result in much lower performance. Changing the first of the above configs to use openIB results in a 21 second run time at best. Sometimes it takes up to 5 minutes. With openib: - Repeated cycles during a single run seem to slow down with each cycle. - On occasions it seems to stall indefinately, waiting on a single receive. Any ideas appreciated. Thanks in advance, Randolph
