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

2009-06-25 Thread Ralph Castain
Doesn't that still pull the message off-socket? I thought it went through the kernel for that method, which means moving it to main memory. On Jun 25, 2009, at 6:49 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote: FWIW: there's also work going on to use direct process-to-process copies (vs. using shared memory bo

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

2009-06-25 Thread Jeff Squyres
FWIW: there's also work going on to use direct process-to-process copies (vs. using shared memory bounce buffers). Various MPI implementations have had this technology for a while (e.g., QLogic's PSM-based MPI); the Open-MX guys are publishing the knem open source kernel module for this pu