On Feb 29, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Pinero, Pedro_jose wrote: > I am using OMPI v.1.5.5 to communicate 200 Processes in a 2-Computers cluster > connected though Ethernet, obtaining a very poor performance.
Let me making sure I'm parsing this statement properly: are you launching 200 MPI processes on 2 computers? If so, do those computers each have 100 cores? I ask because oversubscribing MPI processes (i.e., putting more than 1 process per core) will be disastrous to performance. > I have measured each operation time and I haver realised that the MPI_Gather > operation takes about 1 second in each synchronization (only an integer is > send in each case). Is this time range normal or I have a synchronization > problem? Is there any way to improve this performance? I'm afraid I can't say more without more information about your hardware and software setup. Is this a dedicated HPC cluster? Are you oversubscribing the cores? What kind of Ethernet switching gear do you have? ...etc. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
