On Oct 9, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Sangamesh B wrote:
> I've tested GROMACS for a single process (mpirun -np 1):
> Here are the results:
>
> OpenMPI : 120m 6s
> MPICH2 : 67m 44s
That seems to indicate that something else is going on -- with -np 1,
there should be no MPI communication, right? I wonder if the memory
allocator performance is coming into play here.
Try re-configuring/re-building Open MPI with --without-memory-manager.
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
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