Re: [OMPI users] Maximum message size for MPI_Send()/MPI_Recv() functions

2007-08-03 Thread Juan Carlos Guzman
Hi George, Allocating memory is one thing. Being able to use it it's a completely different story. Once you allocate the 8GB array can you fill it with some random values ? This will force the kernel to really give you the 8GB of memory. If this segfault, then that's the problem. If not ... the

Re: [OMPI users] Maximum message size for MPI_Send()/MPI_Recv() functions

2007-08-02 Thread George Bosilca
Allocating memory is one thing. Being able to use it it's a completely different story. Once you allocate the 8GB array can you fill it with some random values ? This will force the kernel to really give you the 8GB of memory. If this segfault, then that's the problem. If not ... the proble

Re: [OMPI users] Maximum message size for MPI_Send()/MPI_Recv() functions

2007-08-02 Thread Juan Carlos Guzman
Jelena, George, Thanks for your replies. it is possible that the problem is not in MPI - I've seen similar problem on some of our workstations some time ago. Juan, are you sure you can allocate more than 2x 4GB memory of data in non-mpi program on your system? Yes, I did a small program that

Re: [OMPI users] Maximum message size for MPI_Send()/MPI_Recv() functions

2007-08-01 Thread Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic
Juan, it is possible that the problem is not in MPI - I've seen similar problem on some of our workstations some time ago. Juan, are you sure you can allocate more than 2x 4GB memory of data in non-mpi program on your system? Thanks, Jelena On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, George Bosilca wrote: Juan,

Re: [OMPI users] Maximum message size for MPI_Send()/MPI_Recv() functions

2007-08-01 Thread George Bosilca
Juan, I have to check to see what's wrong there. We build Open MPI with full support for data transfer up to sizeof(size_t) bytes. so you case should be covered. However, there are some known problems with the MPI interface for data larger than sizeof(int). As an example the _count field

[OMPI users] Maximum message size for MPI_Send()/MPI_Recv() functions

2007-07-30 Thread Juan Carlos Guzman
Hi, Does anyone know the maximum buffer size I can use in MPI_Send() (MPI_Recv) function?. I was doing some testing using two nodes on my cluster to measure the point-to-point MPI message rate depending on size. The test program exchanges MPI_FLOAT datatypes between two nodes. I was able