On Jan 16, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Brock Palen wrote:
What is the state of openMPI on a sgi altix? How does it compare to mpt. I assume for all operations OMPI will use the sm btl thus all others (other than self) could be disabled. Is there any other tweaks users use? Or is OMPI even recommend on at Altix?
We've run Open MPI on the Altix here at Los Alamos. For point-to- point communication, we're slightly slower than MPT. But for collectives, we're much slower. We just haven't done any work on shared memory collectives, especially on platforms where the memory hierarchies are as deep as they are on the Altix. That being said, it should work and is a viable option if there's a feature of Open MPI that a user needs that is not available in MPT.
Brian -- Brian Barrett Open MPI Team, CCS-1 Los Alamos National Laboratory
