Re: [OMPI users] Automated tuning tool

2009-08-11 Thread Gus Correa
Thank you, John Casu and Edgar Gabriel for the pointers to the parameter space sweep script and the OTPO code. For simplicity, I was thinking of testing each tuned collective separately, instead of the applications, to have an idea of which algorithms and parameters are best for our small cluster

Re: [OMPI users] Automated tuning tool

2009-08-07 Thread Edgar Gabriel
Gus Correa wrote: Terry Frankcombe wrote: There's been quite some discussion here lately about the effect of OMPI tuning parameters, particularly w.r.t. collectives. Is there some tool to probe performance on any given network/collection of nodes to aid optimisation of these parameters? (I'm t

Re: [OMPI users] Automated tuning tool

2009-08-07 Thread john casu
I'm not sure that there is a general "best set" of parameters, given the dependence of that set on comms patterns, etc... Still, this *is* a classic parameter sweep and optimization problem (unlike ATLAS), with a small number of parameters, and is the sort of thing one should be able to hook u

Re: [OMPI users] Automated tuning tool

2009-08-07 Thread Gus Correa
Terry Frankcombe wrote: There's been quite some discussion here lately about the effect of OMPI tuning parameters, particularly w.r.t. collectives. Is there some tool to probe performance on any given network/collection of nodes to aid optimisation of these parameters? (I'm thinking something a