Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Programming Question

2009-06-30 Thread amjad ali
Hi, Gus--thank you. You are right. I mainly have to run programs on a small cluster (GiGE) dedicated for my job only; and sometimes I might get some opportunity to run my code on a shared cluster with hundreds of nodes. My parallel CFD application involves (In its simplest form): 1) reading of inp

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Programming Question

2009-06-30 Thread Gus Correa
Hi Bogdan, list Oh, well, this is definitely a peer reviewed list. My answers were given in the context of Amjad's original questions, and the perception, based on Amjad's previous and current postings, that he is not dealing with a large cluster, or with many users, and plans to both paralleliz

[Beowulf] [hpc-announce] Submission deadline for HPIDC '09 workshop extended to July 10th, 2009

2009-06-30 Thread Pavan Balaji
Dear Colleague: This is to inform you that the International Workshop on High Performance Interconnects for Distributed Computing (HPIDC) has extended the paper submission deadline to July 10th, 2009. A full CFP can be found below. Regards, -- Ada & Pavan -

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Programming Question

2009-06-30 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Gus Correa wrote: the "master" processor reads... broadcasts parameters that are used by all "slave" processors, and scatters any data that will be processed in a distributed fashion by each "slave" processor. ... That always works, there is no file system contention. I

Re: [Beowulf] Re: typical latencies for gigabit ethernet

2009-06-30 Thread Dave Love
Patrick Geoffray writes: > So, if you set rx-frames to 1, there will be an interrupt after each > packet. Isn't that turning off coalescence, as you recommended? > Not many devices implement rx-frames, since it does not > distinguish between small and large frames. Adaptive coalescing methods

Re: [Beowulf] Re: typical latencies for gigabit ethernet

2009-06-30 Thread Gerry Creager
Dave Love wrote: Gerry Creager writes: I had rather nasty results with tg3 and abandoned it. We're using bnx2 now. The latest iteration seems (guardedly) better than the last one. I thought that they were for different hardware (NetXtreme I c.f. NetXtreme II, according to broadcom.com). I

Re: [Beowulf] Re: typical latencies for gigabit ethernet

2009-06-30 Thread Dave Love
Patrick Geoffray writes: > Instead of rx-usecs being the time between interrupts, it is sometimes > implemented as the delay between the the first packet and the following > interrupt, which is obviously wrong. Ah. Is that likely to be in the driver, where it might be fixed, or the NIC firmwa

Re: [Beowulf] typical latencies for gigabit ethernet

2009-06-30 Thread John Hearns
2009/6/29 Rahul Nabar : > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: > > Thanks for all the help Mark! > > >> well, ping is not _really_ a benchmark ;) > > I thought so! :) Lazy person's first shot. Now I will try ethtool. > Rahul, its maybe worth making something explicitly clear. When fol