Re: [OMPI users] [EXTERNAL] OpenMPI with dual port Myrinet cards

2014-01-13 Thread George Bosilca
Victor, If the MX library supports a mapper, Open MPI takes provide selective hardware activation. Look at the MCA parameters supported by the MX devices to get more info (ompi_info —mca btl mx). The one that is of interest in this particular case is mx_if_include, allowing MX based jobs to onl

Re: [OMPI users] [EXTERNAL] OpenMPI with dual port Myrinet cards

2014-01-13 Thread Barrett, Brian W
Victor - I don't think our multi-port support with MX is particularly well tested (I know I don't test that path). It looks like you might be able to work around the problem by setting -mca mtl_mx_endpoint_num 1 on the mpirun command line, which will only use the first port found. But I could

Re: [OMPI users] [EXTERNAL] Re: Configuration for rendezvous and eager protocols: two-sided comm

2014-01-13 Thread Siddhartha Jana
Good evening A quick question, If I set the short message size limit to an unreasonably large number as below, will this request be honored by OpenMPI mpirun --mca btl tcp,self \ --mca btl_tcp_eager_limit 2097152 \ --mca btl_tcp_rndv_eager_limit 2097152 \ --mca bt