Re: [OMPI users] Role of ethernet interfaces of startup of openmpi job using IB

2011-09-30 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Sep 30, 2011, at 6:29 AM, Salvatore Podda wrote: > For the above reason, does anyone, in the list, know which the order/ranking > by which the > ethernet interfaces will be qeuried in the case of multiple ones? > And which are the rules? They're all used equally. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@ci

Re: [OMPI users] Role of ethernet interfaces of startup of openmpi job using IB

2011-09-30 Thread Salvatore Podda
Thanks for the prompt reply! On Sep 27, 2011, at 6:35 AM, Salvatore Podda wrote: We would like to know if the ethernet interfaces play any role in the startup phase of an opempi job using InfiniBand In this case, where we can found some literature on this topic? Unfortunately, there's n

Re: [OMPI users] Role of ethernet interfaces of startup of openmpi job using IB

2011-09-28 Thread Prentice Bisbal
On 09/27/2011 05:30 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Sep 27, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > >> To clarify, is IP/Ethernet required, or will IPoIB be used if it's >> configured on the nodes? Would this make a difference. > > IPoIB is fine, although I've heard concerns about its stability a

Re: [OMPI users] Role of ethernet interfaces of startup of openmpi job using IB

2011-09-27 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Sep 27, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > To clarify, is IP/Ethernet required, or will IPoIB be used if it's > configured on the nodes? Would this make a difference. IPoIB is fine, although I've heard concerns about its stability at scale. The difference that it'll make is that it's

Re: [OMPI users] Role of ethernet interfaces of startup of openmpi job using IB

2011-09-27 Thread Prentice Bisbal
On 09/27/2011 07:50 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Sep 27, 2011, at 6:35 AM, Salvatore Podda wrote: > >> We would like to know if the ethernet interfaces play any role in the >> startup phase of an opempi job using InfiniBand >> In this case, where we can found some literature on this topic?

Re: [OMPI users] Role of ethernet interfaces of startup of openmpi job using IB

2011-09-27 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Sep 27, 2011, at 6:35 AM, Salvatore Podda wrote: > We would like to know if the ethernet interfaces play any role in the > startup phase of an opempi job using InfiniBand > In this case, where we can found some literature on this topic? Unfortunately, there's not a lot of docs about thi

[OMPI users] Role of ethernet interfaces of startup of openmpi job using IB

2011-09-27 Thread Salvatore Podda
Dear all, We would like to know if the ethernet interfaces play any role in the startup phase of an opempi job using InfiniBand In this case, where we can found some literature on this topic? This interest arises from some observations of a substantial time overhead on the startup of our