Re: [OMPI users] MPI-IO on Lustre - OMPIO or ROMIO?

2020-11-26 Thread Mark Dixon via users
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Dave Love via users wrote: The perf test says romio performs a bit better. Also -- from overall time -- it's faster on IMB-IO (which I haven't looked at in detail, and ran with suboptimal striping). I take that back. I can't reproduce a significant difference for total I

Re: [OMPI users] MPI-IO on Lustre - OMPIO or ROMIO?

2020-11-26 Thread Gabriel, Edgar via users
I will have a look at the t_bigio tests on Lustre with ompio. We had from collaborators some reports about the performance problems similar to the one that you mentioned here (which was the reason we were hesitant to make ompio the default on Lustre), but part of the problem is that we were not

Re: [OMPI users] MPI-IO on Lustre - OMPIO or ROMIO?

2020-11-26 Thread Mark Dixon via users
Hi Edgar, Thank you so much for your reply. Having run a number of Lustre systems over the years, I fully sympathise with your characterisation of Lustre as being very unforgiving! Best wishes, Mark On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, Gabriel, Edgar wrote: I will have a look at the t_bigio tests on Lustr