Re: [OMPI users] mpi functions are slow when first called and become normal afterwards

2009-11-12 Thread Gus Correa
Eugene Loh wrote: RightCFD wrote: Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:45:06 -0400 From: Brock Palen mailto:bro...@umich.edu>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] mpi functions are slow when first called and become normal afterwards To: Open MPI Users mailto:us...@open-m

Re: [OMPI users] mpi functions are slow when first called and become normal afterwards

2009-11-12 Thread Eugene Loh
RightCFD wrote: Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:45:06 -0400 From: Brock Palen <bro...@umich.edu> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] mpi functions are slow when first called and        become normal afterwards To: Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org> Message-ID: <890cc430-68b0-4307

Re: [OMPI users] mpi functions are slow when first called and become normal afterwards

2009-11-12 Thread Ralph Castain
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Re: [OMPI users] mpi functions are slow when first called and become normal afterwards

2009-11-12 Thread RightCFD
> > Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:45:06 -0400 > From: Brock Palen > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] mpi functions are slow when first called and > become normal afterwards > To: Open MPI Users > Message-ID: <890cc430-68b0-4307-8260-24a6fadae...@umich.edu> > Conten

Re: [OMPI users] mpi functions are slow when first called and become normal afterwards

2009-10-29 Thread Brock Palen
When MPI_Bcast and MPI_Reduce are called for the first time, they are very slow. But after that, they run at normal and stable speed. Is there anybody out there who have encountered such problem? If you need any other information, please let me know and I'll provide. Thanks in advance. Th

[OMPI users] mpi functions are slow when first called and become normal afterwards

2009-10-29 Thread rightcfd
We installed a linux cluster recently. The OS is Ubuntu 8.04. The network is infiniband. We run a simple MPI program to compute the value of pi. The program follows three stages: MPI_Bcast, computation and MPI_Reduce. We measure the elapsed time on computation and communication, respectivel