[Beowulf] Re: scalability

2009-12-14 Thread Greg Keller
On Dec 12, 2009, at 10:41 AM, beowulf-requ...@beowulf.org wrote: From: Gus Correa Hi Amjad amjad ali wrote: Hi Gus, I was told that some people used to run two processes only on dual-socket dual-core Xeon nodes , leaving the other two cores idle. Although it is an apparent wast

[Beowulf] Re: scalability

2009-12-11 Thread Gus Correa
Hi Amjad amjad ali wrote: Hi Gus, I was told that some people used to run two processes only on dual-socket dual-core Xeon nodes , leaving the other two cores idle. Although it is an apparent waste, the argument was that it paid off in terms of overall efficiency. I guess I fu

Re: [Beowulf] Re: scalability

2009-12-10 Thread Douglas Eadline
> 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 dish

Re: [Beowulf] Re: scalability

2009-12-10 Thread Scott Atchley
On Dec 10, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote: I have heard of Open-MX before, do you need special hardware for that? No, any Ethernet driver on Linux. http://open-mx.org Scott ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Pen

[Beowulf] Re: scalability

2009-12-10 Thread 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 m