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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Hello all:
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I
have just built a 64-core cluster and the following is my
setup.</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT
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<DIV><BR> 8 DP quad-core machines running
ROCKS-5 and MVAPICH-1.0<BR> I am using
8-port flextronic switch (it is SDR switch) and the
cards<BR> are MHES18 (10 GB/sec HCA
cards)<BR><BR> I have the following
questions.<BR><BR> How do I know if my
computation is using IB network or ethernetwork?</DIV>
<DIV> I named each IB card
"fast1 .... fast8. </DIV>
<DIV> I created a host file with
8-copies of each of
fast1, fast2.....fast8.<BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> The details of
8 nodes with IB config below (only two shown)..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV> HOST
SUBNET IFACE
IP
NETMASK
NAME<BR>
divilab:
ibnet ib0
20.1.1.1
255.255.255.0 fast1</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> ................................................................................................................</FONT><BR> compute-0-6:
ibnet ib0
20.1.1.8
255.255.255.0
fast8<BR><BR> I do not see any scale-up from
16 to 32 to 64 processes.<BR><BR> One benchmark of
MD simulation (for one picosecond) of a protein
(FIXa) is<BR> given
below:<BR> </DIV>
<DIV> The MD code is PMEMD/MVAPICH with IFORT/MKL
compilation.<BR><BR> # of
CPUs/cores Time
(sec) Nodes
(load-balanced)<BR>
8
82
8<BR>
16
49
8<BR>
32
42
8<BR>
64
39
8<BR><BR> I am suspecting that I might have
not set up something right or SDR switch/card
limitations...<BR> definitely not happy with
poor scale-up...<BR><BR> I used all default
values of make.mvapich.gen2 (with intel fortran 9.0). </DIV>
<DIV> There seems too many options in this
script. Not sure what most of them would do, therefore, just
<BR> let the script run as
such.<BR><BR> Could somebody offer some help
on how to fix/improve the scaling?<BR><BR>
Thanks a lot...<BR>
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