Re: [OMPI users] MX performance problem on two processor nodes

2006-11-22 Thread Brock Palen
Feel free to correct me if im wrong. OMPI assumes you have a fast network and checks for them. If they are not found it falls back to tcp. So if you leave out the --mca etc etc It should use the mx if its available. Im not sure how MX responds if one of the hosts does not have a

Re: [OMPI users] MX performance problem on two processor nodes

2006-11-21 Thread Iannetti, Anthony C. (GRC-RTB0)
Dear OpenMPI List: >From looking at a recent thread, I see an mpirun command with shared memory and mx: mpirun -mca btl mx,sm,self -np 2 pi3f90.x This works. I may have forgot to mention it, but I am using 1.1.2. I see there is an -mca mtl in version 1.2b1 . I do not think this exist

[OMPI users] MX performance problem on two processor nodes

2006-11-21 Thread Iannetti, Anthony C. (GRC-RTB0)
Dear OpenMPI List: I am running the Myrinet MX btl with OpenMPI on MacOSX 10.4. I am running into a problem. When I run on one processor per node, OpenMPI runs just fine. When I run on two processors per node (slots=2), it seems to take forever (something is hanging). Here is