[Beowulf] Re: scalability

[Jörg Saßmannshausen]

Hi Doug,

I have heard of Open-MX before, do you need special hardware for that? We are 
currently using one GB network here on the cluster (for everything: NFS, 
MPI...) and I would like to increase the performance for the parallel codes I 
am using (NWChem, cp2k, GAMESS) without dishing out too much money for IB or 
Myrinet as the cluster is too small for them (22 nodes right now).

All the best

Jörg

On Thursday 10 December 2009 13:50:51 beowulf-request at beowulf.org wrote:
> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:45:30 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Douglas Eadline" <deadline at eadline.org>
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] scalability
> To: "amjad ali" <amjad11 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Beowulf Mailing List <beowulf at beowulf.org>
> Message-ID: <51346.192.168.1.1.1260452730.squirrel at mail.eadline.org>
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>
> The performance of GigE can vary widely based on several
> issues:
>
>  - chipset
>  - driver
>  - driver settings (interrupt coalescing etc.)
>  - switch performance under load
>  - switch manufacturer
>
> A well tuned GigE network is never as good as
> IB or Myrinet, but it can work well for some codes.
> You can also try using Open-MX instead of TCP
> for MPI communications.
>
> --
> Doug

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