[OMPI users] How to specify the use of RDMA?

2017-03-19 Thread Rodrigo Escobar
Hi, I have trying to run the Intel IMB benchmarks to compare the performance of Infiniband (IB) vs Ethernet. However, I am not seeing any difference in performance even for communication intensive benchmarks, such as alltoallv. Each one of my machines has one ethernet interface and an infiniband i

Re: [OMPI users] How to launch ompi-server?

2017-03-19 Thread Adam Sylvester
I did a little more testing in case this helps... if I run ompi-server on the same host as the one I call MPI_Publish_name() on, it does successfully connect. But when I run it on a separate machine (which is on the same network and accessible via TCP), I get the issue above where it hangs. Thank

Re: [OMPI users] How to launch ompi-server?

2017-03-19 Thread r...@open-mpi.org
Well, your initial usage looks correct - you don’t launch ompi-server via mpirun. However, it sounds like there is probably a bug somewhere if it hangs as you describe. Scratching my head, I can only recall less than a handful of people ever using these MPI functions to cross-connect jobs, so i

[OMPI users] How to launch ompi-server?

2017-03-19 Thread Adam Sylvester
I am trying to use ompi-server with Open MPI 1.10.6. I'm wondering if I should run this with or without the mpirun command. If I run this: ompi-server --no-daemonize -r + It prints something such as 959315968.0;tcp://172.31.3.57:45743 to stdout but I have thus far been unable to connect to it.