[OMPI users] Proprieatary transport layer for openMPI...

2006-08-07 Thread Durga Choudhury
Hi All We have been using the Argonne MPICH (over TCP/IP) on our in-house designed embedded multicomputer for last several months with satisfactory results. Our network technology is custom built and is * *not** infiniband (or any published standards, such as Myrinet) based. This is due to the na

Re: [OMPI users] Proprieatary transport layer for openMPI...

2006-08-07 Thread Galen M. Shipman
Durga, Currently there are two options for porting an interconnect to Open MPI, one would be to use the BTL interface (Byte Transfer Layer). Another would be to use the MTL (Matching Transport Layer). The difference is that the MTL is useful for those APIs which expose matching and other

[OMPI users] network preference

2006-08-07 Thread Brock Palen
I had a user ask this, its not a very practical question but I am curious. OMPI uses a 'fast' network if its available. (IB, GM, etc) I also infer that for process in the same SMP nodes the sm (shared memory) btl is used, even if the job has more than one node given to it? The real qu