I have a quad-core Cloverton here, would running these on there with OpenMPI be useful?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 30, 2008 7:38 AM, Axel <<a href="mailto:akoh...@gmail.com">akoh...@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br><br>On Jan 30, 1:06 am, Fawzi Mohamed <<a href="mailto:fa...@gmx.ch">fa...@gmx.ch</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Axel,<br>><br>> nice numbers... just for the record<br>><br>> > first off, contrary to fawzi's statement, cpu affinity in OpenMPI has<br>> > to be explicitely enabled (e.g. via setting mpi_paffinity_alone=1 in<br>
> > ~/.openmpi/mca-params.conf).<br>><br>> well I didn't say it was automatic :), what I meant was that I knew<br>> that both LAM MPI (on which I tested) and openMPI could do it, if<br><br></div>please check the LAM/MPI sources. to the best of my knowledge<br>
there is no processor affinity in LAM/MPI. i just downloaded the 7.1.4<br>sources and there is no call to the respective system or library<br>calls.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> configured to do so, and then I told how to have it with LAM MPI...<br>
<br></div>sorry, but as i wrote, this only tells about locality, _not_<br>processor<br>affinity. schedulers are still kicking processes around.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br>> > however what both LAM/MPI and<br>> > particularly<br>
> > OpenMPI have activated by default are algorithms that can take<br>> > advantage<br>> > of locality and that require the correct specification of nodes.<br>><br>> yep, I think that Open MPI is the best choice to have a well<br>
> performing MPI, especially with multiple cores.<br>> There is active development and they try to take advantage of the<br>> latest hardware.<br><br></div>yes. OpenMPI has the best collective algorithms<br>amongst all available open source packages.<br>
<br>cheers,<br><font color="#888888"> axel.<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>><br>> ciao<br>> Fawzi<br></div></blockquote></div><br>