On Jun 25, 2009, at 13:17 , Scott Atchley wrote:

On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Dave Love wrote:

Also, Brice Goglin, the Open-MX author had a couple of questions
concerning multi-rail MX while I'm on:

1. Does the MX MTL work with multi-rail?

I believe the answer is yes as long as all NICs are in the same fabric (they usually are).

If the multi-rail is enabled in the MX library then the MTL will use it. Same for the BTL.


2. "You may also want to ask why the MX BTL seems to be opening and
 closing an additional endpoint during initialization. It seems to
 make endpoint numbers a bit unpredictable here (causing my jobs to
 use the wrong rail"

Thanks for any info.

Without knowing the code and/or looking, I believe OMPI opens an endpoint to get some mapping info (to see if the NIC is in the same fabric).

It is not the BTL who open the second endpoint, it is the MTL. It's a very long story, but unfortunately right now the two components (MTL and BTL) each open an endpoint. Once the upper level complete the selection of the component for the run, one of the endpoints will be closed.

  george.


Scott
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