[Beowulf] More cores/More processors/More nodes?

[Chris Samuel]

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 00:37, Douglas Eadline wrote:

> This is a non-obvious result many find hard to believe.
> That is, MPI on the same node maybe faster than some shared/threaded
> mode. (of course it all depends on the application etc.)

We believe we have seen that with LS-Dyna comparing SMP versus MPP (MPI) 
variants on a single node.

cheers,
Chris
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