[OMPI users] Concerning infiniband support

2011-01-20 Thread Zhigang Wei
Dear all, I want to use infiniband, I am from a University in the US, my University's high performance center don't have Gcc compiled openmpi that support infiniband, so I want to compile myself. But I have a few questions, 1. Is it ok to compile openmpi myself with infiniband suppo

Re: [OMPI users] Concerning infiniband support

2011-01-20 Thread John Hearns
On 20 January 2011 06:59, Zhigang Wei wrote: > Dear all, > > > > > > I want to use infiniband, I am from a University in the US, my University’s > high performance center don’t have Gcc compiled openmpi that support > infiniband, so I want to compile myself. That is a surprise - you must have som

Re: [OMPI users] Concerning infiniband support

2011-01-20 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
Haha! +1 on what John says. But otherwise, you shouldn't need root to install OMPI with ib support. If the ib drivers are installed correctly, you shouldn't need the --with-openib configure switches at all. Sent from my PDA. No type good. On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:48 AM, "John Hearns" wrote:

Re: [OMPI users] Concerning infiniband support

2011-01-20 Thread Bowen Zhou
Hi, Besides all these advices have been given, you may need to use --prefix in configure script to override default installation directory since you don't have root account. Also you might want to look at MVAPICH as an alternative, an variant of MPICH2 that supports infiniband. good luck, B

Re: [OMPI users] Concerning infiniband support

2011-01-20 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jan 20, 2011, at 7:51 AM, Bowen Zhou wrote: > Besides all these advices have been given, you may need to use --prefix in > configure script to override default installation directory since you don't > have root account. Also you might want to look at MVAPICH as an alternative, > an variant o

Re: [OMPI users] Concerning infiniband support

2011-01-20 Thread Bowen Zhou
On 01/20/2011 07:57 AM, On Jan 20, 2011, at 7:51 AM, Bowen Zhou wrote: Besides all these advices have been given, you may need to use --prefix in configure script to override default installation directory since you don't have root account. Also you might want to look at MVAPICH as an altern

[OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-20 Thread Olivier SANNIER
Hello, I am currently working on a Win32 program that makes some intensive calculation, and is already written to be multithreaded. As a result, it uses all the available cores on the PC it runs on. The basic behavior is for the user to open a model, click the "start" button, then the threads a

Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-20 Thread Nico Mittenzwey
Hi, What communication layer is used? How do I choose it? The fastest available. You can choose the network by parameters given to mpirun see http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=tuning#mca-def What is the behavior in case a node dies or becomes unreachable? Your run will be aborted. Howe

Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-20 Thread Olivier SANNIER
First of all, thank you for answers. I have a bit more questions, added below. What is the behavior in case a node dies or becomes unreachable? Your run will be aborted. However there is checkpoint/restart support for Linux http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=ft As this is a Win32 program, I'l

Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-20 Thread David Zhang
you would probably want some kind of cluster managing software like torque On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Olivier SANNIER < olivier.sann...@actuaris.com> wrote: > First of all, thank you for answers. > > I have a bit more questions, added below. > > > > What is the behavior in case a node dies

[OMPI users] FW: Open MPI on HPUX

2011-01-20 Thread dj M
Hi, Does anyone know if Open MPI 1.4.x works on HPUX 11i.v3? Thanks

Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-20 Thread Nico Mittenzwey
On 01/20/2011 05:50 PM, Olivier SANNIER wrote: What is the behavior in case a node dies or becomes unreachable? Your run will be aborted. However there is checkpoint/restart support for Linux http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=ft As this is a Win32 program, I'll have to take into account tha

[OMPI users] Hair depleting issue with Ompi143 and one program

2011-01-20 Thread David Mathog
I have been working on slightly modifying a software package by Sean Eddy called Hmmer 3. The hardware acceleration was originally SSE2 but since most of our compute nodes only have SSE1 and MMX I rewrote a few small sections to just use those instructions. (And yes, as far as I can tell it invok

Re: [OMPI users] Hair depleting issue with Ompi143 and one program

2011-01-20 Thread David Mathog
> (And yes, as far as I > can tell it invokes emms before any floating point operations are run > after each MMX usage.) Is there anything in Ompi which is likely to cause one of the MMX routines to be interrupted in such a way that the MMX state is not saved? The bugs that arise when emms is not

Re: [OMPI users] Hair depleting issue with Ompi143 and one program

2011-01-20 Thread Dave Goodell
I can't speak to what OMPI might be doing to your program, but I have a few suggestions for looking into the Valgrind issues. Valgrind's "--track-origins=yes" option is usually helpful for figuring out where the uninitialized values came from. However, if I understand you correctly and if you