On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, George Bosilca wrote:

> Daniel,
> 
> Open IB is one of the few devices that allow local communications (instead of
> using shared memory). As the latency looks OK, I supposed that small messages
> always use shared memory, while large ones get stripped over sm and openib.
> Can you run a test without openib to confirm this ?

This gives exactly the same scores as with OpenIB enabled. I.e. the openib 
btl is doesn't interfere with the sm btl in a negative way, it just seems 
that the sm btl is for some reason quite a bit slower than the OpenIB btl.

Daniël

[cvsupport@extern src]$ mpirun -np 8 --mca btl self,sm -hostfile hostfile \
./IMB-MPI1.openmpi -npmin 8 PingPong

#---------------------------------------------------
# Benchmarking PingPong
# #processes = 2
# ( 6 additional processes waiting in MPI_Barrier)
#---------------------------------------------------
       #bytes #repetitions      t[usec]   Mbytes/sec
            0         1000         0.85         0.00
            1         1000         0.95         1.00
            2         1000         0.95         2.00
            4         1000         0.95         4.01
            8         1000         0.95         8.00
           16         1000         1.10        13.82
           32         1000         1.13        27.00
           64         1000         1.13        54.11
          128         1000         1.25        97.62
          256         1000         1.56       156.65
          512         1000         1.94       251.23
         1024         1000         2.94       332.16
         2048         1000         4.48       435.81
         4096         1000         6.96       561.08
         8192         1000        11.18       698.98
        16384         1000        18.80       831.01
        32768         1000        34.60       903.31
        65536          640        60.58      1031.71
       131072          320       112.12      1114.91
       262144          160       215.67      1159.17
       524288           80       423.87      1179.61
      1048576           40       858.35      1165.03
      2097152           20      1765.20      1133.02
      4194304           10      4049.80       987.70

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