Brad just curious.
Did you tweak any other values for starting and running a job on such
a large system? You say unmodified, but OpenMPI lets you tweak many
values at runtime.
I would be curious to expand what I know from what you discovered.
Brock Palen
www.umich.edu/~brockp
Center for Advanced Computing
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On Jun 16, 2008, at 10:12 PM, Brad Benton wrote:
> Greetings Open MPI users; we thought you'd be interested in the
> following announcement...
>
> A new supercomputer, powered by Open MPI, has broken the petaflop
> barrier to become the world's fastest supercomputer. The
> "Roadrunner" system was jointly developed by Los Alamos National
> Laboratories and IBM. Roadrunner's design uses a cluster of AMD
> dual-core processors coupled with computational accelerators based
> on the IBM Cell Broadband Engine. The cluster consists of 3,060
> nodes, each of which has 2 dual-core AMD processors and associated
> Cell accelerators. The AMD nodes are connected with 4x DDR
> InfiniBand links.
>
> Open MPI was used as the communications library for the 12,240
> processes comprising the Linpack run which broke the Petaflop
> barrier at 1.026 Petaflop/s. The version of Open MPI used in the
> run-for-record was a pre-release version of the upcoming 1.3
> release. Enhancements in this release include modifications for
> efficient, scalable process launch. As such, Open MPI was run
> unmodified from a snapshot of the pre-1.3 source base (meaning:
> there are no Roadrunner-specific enhancements that are unportable to
> other environments -- all Open MPI users benefit from the
> scalability and performance improvements contributed by the
> Roadrunner project).
>
> --Brad Benton
> Open MPI/Roadrunner Team
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