Re: [OMPI users] Related to project ideas in OpenMPI

2011-08-26 Thread Ralph Castain
FWIW: I'm in the process of porting some code from a branch that allows apps to do on-demand checkpoint/recovery style operations at the app level. Specifically, it provides the ability to: * request a "recovery image" - an application-level blob containing state info required for the app to re

Re: [OMPI users] Related to project ideas in OpenMPI

2011-08-26 Thread Josh Hursey
There are some great comments in this thread. Process migration (like many topics in systems) can get complex fast. The Open MPI process migration implementation is checkpoint/restart based (currently using BLCR), and uses an 'eager' style of migration. This style of migration stops a process comp

Re: [OMPI users] poll taking too long in open-mpi

2011-08-26 Thread Eugene Loh
On 8/23/2011 1:24 PM, Dick Kachuma wrote: I have used gprof to profile a program that uses openmpi. The result shows that the code spends a long time in poll (37% on 8 cores, 50% on 16 and 85% on 32). I was wondering if there is anything I can do to reduce the time spent in poll. In serial perfor

Re: [OMPI users] ConnectX with InfiniHost IB HCAs

2011-08-26 Thread Shamis, Pavel
You may try to update your OFED version. I think 1.5.3 is the latest one. Pavel (Pasha) Shamis --- Application Performance Tools Group Computer Science and Math Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory On Aug 25, 2011, at 7:46 PM, wrote: > > Hi all, > > it is more hardware or system confi