Re: [OMPI users] MPI on large clusters

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Squyres
I think the answer to all your questions is: "it depends on your application." MPI is used on extremely large clusters (many thousands of nodes), but with applications that were specially written for those large numbers of nodes. You need to look at the specific requirements of your application (G

[OMPI users] MPI on large clusters

2006-09-15 Thread imran shaik
Hi folks, Is MPI suitable for running jobs on large clusters?? Is it best suited only for SMP ? I used MPI on relatively small cluster. But now i have to recommend MPI for a relatively large 600 node cluster. Shall I ?? The nature of jobs is well, processing tera bytes of data. Th