Re: [OMPI users] Problems building Open MPI 1.4.1 with Pathscale

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Bason
Well, I am by no means an expert on the GNU-style asm directives. I believe someone else (George Bosilca?) tweaked what I had suggested. That being said, I think the memory "clobber" is harmless. Iain On Feb 9, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: Iain did the genius for the new assembly.

Re: [OMPI users] Anybody built a working 1.4.1 on Solaris 8 (Sparc)?

2010-02-05 Thread Iain Bason
On Feb 4, 2010, at 4:52 PM, David Mathog wrote: Has anybody built 1.4.1 on Solaris 8 (Sparc), because it isn't going very well here. If you succeeded at this please tell me how you did it. Here is my tale of woe. First attempt with gcc (3.4.6 from SunFreeware) and ./configure --with-sge

Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI Suspend/Resume

2010-02-03 Thread Iain Bason
On Feb 2, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Andreea Costea wrote: Hi. Let's say I have an MPI application that runs on several hosts. I want to suspend the application. I do that by sending to the mpirun process the signal TSTP. Is there any way to measure how long does it take to the application to co

Re: [OMPI users] could oversubscription clobber an executable?

2009-05-18 Thread Iain Bason
On May 14, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: I guess another way to ask is: is it guaranteed that A and B are contiguous? Yes. and the MPI communication correctly sends the data? I'm not sure what you're asking, but the code looks as though it ought to work. Iain

Re: [OMPI users] Factor of 10 loss in performance with 1.3.x

2009-04-07 Thread Iain Bason
On Apr 7, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Eugene Loh wrote: Iain Bason wrote: There are a bunch changes in the shared memory module between 1.2.9 and 1.3.1. One significant change is the introduction of the "sendi" internal interface. I believe George Bosilca did the initial impl

Re: [OMPI users] Interaction between Intel and OpenMPI floating point exceptions

2009-04-07 Thread Iain Bason
On Apr 6, 2009, at 7:22 PM, Steve Lowder wrote: Recently I've been running an MPI code that uses the LAPACK slamch routine to determine machine precision parameters. This software is compiled using the latest Intel Fortran compiler and setting the - fpe0 argument to watch for certain floa

Re: [OMPI users] Factor of 10 loss in performance with 1.3.x

2009-04-07 Thread Iain Bason
There are a bunch changes in the shared memory module between 1.2.9 and 1.3.1. One significant change is the introduction of the "sendi" internal interface. I believe George Bosilca did the initial implementation. This is just a wild guess, but maybe there is something about sendi that i

Re: [OMPI users] Issues on install 1.3.1

2009-04-02 Thread Iain Bason
On Apr 2, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Gus Correa wrote: Sorry, I don't have an answer about performance. You may need to ask somebody else or google around about the relative performance of 32-bit vs. 64-bit mode. It is worth trying 64-bit. The performance is going to depend on the program. Since 6

Re: [OMPI users] Linux opteron infiniband sunstudio configure problem

2009-03-30 Thread Iain Bason
On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Kevin McManus wrote: configure: error: unrecognized option: --diable-mpi-threads Typo. That should be --disable-mpi-threads. Iain