Paul I tried NetPipeMPI - (belatedly because their site was down down for a couple of days)
The results show a max of 7.4 Gb/s at 8388605 bytes which seems fine. But my program still runs slowly and stalls occasionally. I've using 1 buffer per process - I assume this is ok. Is it of any significance that the log_num_mtt and log_mtts_per_seg params where not set? Is this a symptom of a broken install? Reposting original message for clarity - its been a few days... 2nd posts are below this 1st section ======================================================================================== I have a test rig comprising 2 i7 systems 8GB RAM 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 ________________________________ From: Randolph Pullen <randolph_pul...@yahoo.com.au> To: Paul Kapinos <kapi...@rz.rwth-aachen.de>; Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org> Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2012 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Infiniband performance Problem and stalling Interesting, the log_num_mtt and log_mtts_per_seg params where not set. Setting them to utilise 2*8G of my RAM resulted in no change to the stalls or run time ie; (19,3) (20,2) (21,1) or (6,16). In all cases, OpenIB runs in twice the time it takes TCP,except if I push the small message max to 64K and force short messages. Then the openib times are the same as TCP and no faster. I'ms till at a loss as to why... ________________________________ From: Paul Kapinos <kapi...@rz.rwth-aachen.de> To: Randolph Pullen <randolph_pul...@yahoo.com.au>; Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org> Sent: Tuesday, 28 August 2012 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Infiniband performance Problem and stalling Randolph, after reading this: On 08/28/12 04:26, Randolph Pullen wrote: > - On occasions it seems to stall indefinately, waiting on a single receive. ... I would make a blind guess: are you aware about IB card parameters for registered memory? http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=openfabrics#ib-low-reg-mem "Waiting forever" for a single operation is one of symptoms of the problem especially in 1.5.3. best, Paul P.S. the lower performance with 'big' chinks is known phenomenon, cf. http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/netpipe/ (image on bottom of the page). But the chunk size of 64k is fairly small -- Dipl.-Inform. Paul Kapinos - High Performance Computing, RWTH Aachen University, Center for Computing and Communication Seffenter Weg 23, D 52074 Aachen (Germany) Tel: +49 241/80-24915 _______________________________________________ users mailing list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
