[Beowulf] Really efficient MPIs??

[Andrew Piskorski]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:10:21AM -0500, Scott Atchley wrote:

> At SC07 MPICH2 BoF, I gave a brief talk about MPICH2-MX. In addition  
> to showing results of it running over MX-10G, I had a few slides  
> showing performance using MPICH2-MX over Open-MX on Intel e1000  
> drivers (80003ES2LAN NICs). IMB Pingpong latency is ~10 us for small  
> messages and throughput for large messages is near line rate.
> 
> Open-MX provides the same API as MX, runs on _any_ Ethernet driver/ 
> NIC, should work with most MX software (MPICH-MX, MPICH2-MX, PVFS2,  
> etc.) and is open source. It has not reached a release tarball yet,  
> but we expect to see one soon.

Whoa, so Open-MX is like GAMMA, only better?  Where do we read more
about it?

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Andrew Piskorski <atp at piskorski.com>
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