Re: [OMPI users] GPU and CPU timing - OpenMPI and Thrust

2012-05-09 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 15:59 08/05/2012, you wrote: Yep you are correct. I did the same and it worked. When I have more than 3 MPI tasks there is lot of overhead on GPU. But for CPU there is not overhead. All three machines have 4 quad core processors with 3.8 GB RAM. Just wondering why there is no degradation

Re: [OMPI users] GPU and CPU timing - OpenMPI and Thrust

2012-05-08 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Yep you are correct. I did the same and it worked. When I have more than 3 MPI tasks there is lot of overhead on GPU. But for CPU there is not overhead. All three machines have 4 quad core processors with 3.8 GB RAM. Just wondering why there is no degradation of performance on CPU ? On Tue, May

Re: [OMPI users] GPU and CPU timing - OpenMPI and Thrust

2012-05-08 Thread Rolf vandeVaart
You should be running with one GPU per MPI process. If I understand correctly, you have a 3 node cluster and each node has a GPU so you should run with np=3. Maybe you can try that and see if your numbers come out better. From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On B