On Sep 20, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Tim Prince wrote:

> Quoted comment from OP seem to show a somewhat different question: Does 
> OpenMPI implement any operations in a different way from MVAPICH?  I would 
> think it probable that the answer could be affirmative for operations such as 
> allreduce, but this leads well outside my expertise with respect to specific 
> MPI implementations.  It isn't out of the question to suspect that such 
> differences might be aggravated when using excessively aggressive ifort 
> options such as -fast.

This is 'zactly what I was going to say -- reductions between Open MPI and 
MVAPICH may well perform global arithmetic operations in different orders.

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