On Jul 19, 2008, at 7:06 AM, Bill Broadley wrote:
> I built openib-1.2.6 on centos-5.2 with gcc-4.3.1.
>
> I did a tar xvzf, cd openib-1.2.6, mkdir obj, cd obj:
> (I put gcc-4.3.1/bin first in my path)
> ../configure --prefix=/opt/pkg/openmpi-1.2.6 --enable-shared --
> enable-debug
>
> If I look in config.log I see:
> MCA_btl_ALL_COMPONENTS=' self sm gm mvapi mx openib portals tcp udapl'
> MCA_btl_DSO_COMPONENTS=' self sm openib tcp'
>
> So both openib and tcp are available and have many parameters under
> ompi_info --param btl tcp
> ompi_info --param btl openib
>
> Yet, when I run a MPI program I can't get use TCP:
> # which mpirun
> /opt/pkg/openmpi-1.2.6/bin/mpirun
> # mpirun -mca btl ^openib -np 2 -machinefile m ./relay 1
> compute-0-1.local compute-0-0.local
> size= 1, 131072 hops, 2 nodes in 0.304 sec ( 2.320 us/hop)
> 1683 KB/sec
>
> Or if I try the inverse:
> # mpirun -mca btl self,tcp -np 2 -machinefile m ./relay 1
> compute-0-1.local compute-0-0.local
> size= 1, 131072 hops, 2 nodes in 0.313 sec ( 2.386 us/hop)
> 1637 KB/sec
>
> 2.3us is definitely faster than GigE. I don't have IPoverIB setup,
> ifconfig -a shows ib0, but it has no IP address.
Sorry for the delay in replying.
What exactly is the relay program timing? Can you run a standard
benchmark like NetPIPE, perchance? (http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/
netpipe/)
--
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
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