On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Shamis, Pavel wrote:
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>>> What: Change coll tuned default to pairwise exchange
>>>
>>> Why: The linear algorithm does not scale to any reasonable number of PEs
>>>
>>> When: Timeout in 2 days (Fri)
>>>
>>> Is there any reason the default should not be changed?
>>
>> Nathan,
>>
>> I can see why people think the linear algorithm is bad. However I think it depends on the application communication pattern in the alltoallv. Do you have any numbers to back your claim?
>
> George,
> In addition the above list of dependencies it also depends on network technology. The linear algorithm does not play well with IB.
Nor does it play well with Gemini. I will get some hard numbers early next week on both our XE6 and one of our infiniband clusters.
-Nathan
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