Re: [OMPI users] max buffer size

2016-06-05 Thread Alexander Droste
Hi Jeff, thanks for the material! Meanwhile, I tested sending INT_MAX elements of an int64_t pair and Open MPI seems to be fine with sending 2^31 * (2 * 8) bytes. -Alex --- Googletest-Testcase: TEST(MPImaxBufferSize, maxSendBufferSizeInt) { MPI_Datat

Re: [OMPI users] max buffer size

2016-06-05 Thread Jeff Hammond
Check out the BigMPI project for details on this topic. Some (many?) MPI implementations still have internal limitations that prevent one from sending more than 2 gigabytes using MPI datatypes. You can use the BigMPI tests to identify these. https://github.com/jeffhammond/BigMPI https://github.co

Re: [OMPI users] max buffer size

2016-06-05 Thread Alexander Droste
Hi Gus, thanks a lot for the intro, that helps. Best regards, Alex On 05.06.16 18:30, Gustavo Correa wrote: On Jun 5, 2016, at 12:03 PM, Alexander Droste wrote: Hi everyone, I'd like to know what the maximum buffer size for sends/receives is. Besides the count being limited to INT_MAX, how

Re: [OMPI users] max buffer size

2016-06-05 Thread Gustavo Correa
On Jun 5, 2016, at 12:03 PM, Alexander Droste wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to know what the maximum buffer size > for sends/receives is. Besides the count being limited > to INT_MAX, how is the max buffer size limited? > > Best regards, > Alex > Hi Alexander As far as I know, the usua