On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 20:18 -0700, Ralph Castain wrote: > Did you run it with -mca mpi_paffinity_alone 1? Given this is 1.4.1, you can > set the bindings to -bind-to-socket or -bind-to-core. Either will give you > improved performance. > > IIRC, MVAPICH defaults to -bind-to-socket. OMPI defaults to no binding.
Is this sensible? Won't most users want processes bound? OMPI's supposed to "to the right thing" out of the box, right?