[Beowulf] MPICH2 + PVFS2 + Help needed urgently.

[Michael Will]

I have not had a chance to test anything yet, but my first guess is that you
are not having realistic benchmark numbers to begin with.

You say you see 122MB/s write, 880MB/s read? That for sure is not
across gigabit ethernet unless you have eight NICs on the reading node ;-)

If you were using infiniband this might be realistic, but for gigabit 
ethernet
it is not.

Viel Glueck,

Michael

Michael Gauckler wrote:

>Dear Lists,
>
>I am having problems with the performance of MPICH2 and PVFS2.
>
>The program attached below should write 136MB junks of data to a 
>2.7GB file on a pvfs2 mount.
>
>Unfortunately the performance is so poor that my program never
>finishes. PVFS2 performance seems not great but acceptable for 
>136 MB junks to finish soon (122MB/s, see below).
>
>If someone could run a test on his machine and give me estimation of
>the runtime or hints where the problem might be I would be more than
>happy! I need to locate the problem: Code, MPICH2, ROMIO, PVFS2.
>
>Sincereley yours,
>Michael
>  
>

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