Thank you for your fast response.
I am launching 200 light processes in two computers with 8 cores each one (Intel i7 processor). They are dedicated and are interconnected through a point-to-point Gigabit Ethernet link. I read about oversubscribing nodes in the open-mpi documentation, and for that reason I am using the option - Mca mpi_yield_when_idle 1 Regards Pedro >>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/
