Re: [OMPI users] Loopback Communication

2008-03-01 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Feb 29, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Elvedin Trnjanin wrote: I'm using a "ping pong" program to approximate bandwidth and latency of various messages sizes and I notice when doing various transfers (eg. async) that the maximum bandwidth isn't the system's maximum bandwidth. I've looked through the F

Re: [OMPI users] Loopback Communication

2008-03-01 Thread Giovanni Davide Vergine
Loopback communication it's shared memory copy, of course. Even if it would be implemented with socket() and other network syscalls, kernel will do finally only memory copying. Il giorno 01/mar/08, alle ore 00:25, Elvedin Trnjanin ha scritto: I'm using a "ping pong" program to approximate bandw

[OMPI users] Loopback Communication

2008-02-29 Thread Elvedin Trnjanin
I'm using a "ping pong" program to approximate bandwidth and latency of various messages sizes and I notice when doing various transfers (eg. async) that the maximum bandwidth isn't the system's maximum bandwidth. I've looked through the FAQ and I haven't noticed this being covered but how does