Re: [OMPI users] Performance differences using mpirun and SLURM

2015-05-20 Thread Ralph Castain
There are major differences when you launch via srun vs mpirun as the OMPI daemons provide a lot of “helper” info to the procs that they don’t get when directly launched. We’ve tried to minimize those differences, but we can’t necessarily get them all. We’ve seen reports of this before, but the

[OMPI users] Performance differences using mpirun and SLURM

2015-05-20 Thread Patrick LeGresley
Hi, I've noticed some performance differences when using mpirun and SLURM for job startup. Below I've included example output from the OSU bidirectional bandwidth benchmark that seem to show a significant difference in bandwidth for larger message sizes. I've looked at the OpenMPI FAQ for runnin