On Jan 25, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Gus Correa wrote: > A) Keep the FAQ, please!
No worries -- I am not asking about removing the FAQ. I was more asking if people wanted the *form* of the FAQ would be useful in a different form. > B) Add an "ALL FAQ" category, to make keyword search easier > on web browsers. Hmm. Not a bad idea. Probably not hard to do. > C) Please write the (long overdue) FAQ set about the > OpenMPI collectives! > > I asked before, and I beg for it again: > Please write a set of FAQs about > OpenMPI collectives, and how to tune them up. George Bosilca is the owner of this one -- he's the guy with all the knowledge... > Which algorithms are available for each collective? > What is the rationale behind these algorithms? > What is the default algorithm used by each collective? > How do you enforce the use of a certain collective algorithm? > What are the pros and cons of hardwiring > a choice of collective algorithm? > How to tune up the collective algorithms to your application and to > your hardware? George -- if you write something up, I can word smyth it to put it into nice FAQ prose... -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com
