Re: [OMPI users] Shared Memory (SM) module and shared cache implications

2009-06-25 Thread Simone Pellegrini
Ralph Castain wrote: At the moment, I believe the answer is the main memory route. We have a project just starting here (LANL) to implement the cache-level exchange, but it won't be ready for release for awhile. Interesting, actually I am a PhD student and my topic is optimization of MPI applic

Re: [OMPI users] Shared Memory (SM) module and shared cache implications

2009-06-25 Thread Ralph Castain
At the moment, I believe the answer is the main memory route. We have a project just starting here (LANL) to implement the cache-level exchange, but it won't be ready for release for awhile. On Jun 25, 2009, at 2:39 AM, Simone Pellegrini wrote: Hello, I have a simple question for the share

[OMPI users] Shared Memory (SM) module and shared cache implications

2009-06-25 Thread Simone Pellegrini
Hello, I have a simple question for the shared memory (sm) module developers of Open MPI. In the current implementation, is there any advantage of having shared cache among processes communicating? For example let say we have P1 and P2 placed in the same CPU on 2 different physical cores with