Thank you Gilles. Is there some documentation on vader btl and how I can
check which (sm or vader) is being used?

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:18 AM, Gilles Gouaillardet <gil...@rist.or.jp>
wrote:

> Saliya,
>
> OpenMPI uses btl for point to point communication, and automatically
> selects the best one per pair.
> Typically, the openib or tcp btl is used for inter node communication, and
> the sm or vader btl for
> intra node.
> note the vader btl uses the knem kernel module when available for even
> more optimized configurations.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gilles
>
>
> On 9/1/2015 5:59 AM, Saliya Ekanayake wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just trying to see if there are any optimizations (or options) in OpenMPI
> to improve communication between intra node processes. For example do they
> use something like shared memory?
>
> Thank you,
> Saliya
>
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