[Developers] adding ch_mx (Myrinet Express) as an MPICH_DEVICE ?

Erik Schnetter schnetter at cct.lsu.edu
Fri May 11 09:55:19 CDT 2007


On May 11, 2007, at 08:50:03, jtao at cct.lsu.edu wrote:

> Recently, I got access to a local Opteron(4 Opteron 875, 16GB in
> each node) cluster connected via Myrinet Express and did some
> benchmark runs. Using MPI=CUSTOM is actually pretty straightforward
> but it will be nice to have ch_mx as an MPICH_DEVICE if it hasn't
> been considered.

If it is not in the source already, then it is likely that no one has  
done it yet.  Do you want to send a patch?  What is the speedup  
compared to the standard device?

-erik

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