thanks jeff, I shall ping you on devel list. Mohamed Husain On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:39 AM, Mohamed Husain A.K wrote: > > > Is there any plug in support for byte transfer for SRIO > > Not to my knowledge. > > > if not how to go about with the developement of a plug-in > > The SRIO interface has got a ethernet like encapsulation. > > I know very little about SRIO (i.e., I skimmed > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidIO :-) ). I read that article to mean > that SRIO is used within a single compute server. If that's true, is it > better to use SRIO directly (vs. shared memory-based communication)? If I'm > incorrect and you're using SRIO like a network fabric, then it might be > useful to use SRIO for point-to-point MPI communications and see how it > does. > > I have no idea what the API is for SRIO, but I'm guessing it would be > suitable as a Byte Transfer Layer (BTL) plugin for Open MPI. BTLs are the > back-end implementations behind the "ob1" plugin for the Point-to-Point > Messaging Layer (PML) in Open MPI -- i.e., the back-end behind the MPI > semantics for MPI_SEND, MPI_RECV, etc. > > There's a few different options for developing new plugins in OMPI -- if > I've hit anywhere close to the mark on the above paragraphs, ping us over on > the devel list and we can get you started (i.e., developing new plugins is a > better topic for the devel list than the general users' list; see > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/ompi.php). > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >
