SCI, Myrinet Benchmarks using EFF_BW

[Steffen Persvold]

Jason Holmes wrote:
> 
> If anyone wants to see more benchmarks, I have a few 'raw' plots of
> Pallas and Nas MPI benchmarks stored at
> 
>   http://www.personal.psu.edu/jwh128/benchmarks
> 
> They'll eventually become part of an official webpage and have at least
> a minimal description of what's going on, but for now, they're just
> png's and gif's.
If you take a look at http://www.scali.com/performance/index.html under
the section "Pallas PMB", maybe you could grab some ideas (description
of what's going on etc.).

These tests were run on a 16 node dual 450 PIII system equipped with
SCI. (comparing different versions of ScaMPI)

> 
> Useful information:
> 
> ScaMPI version: 1.9.1 (RPM)
> GM version: 1.1.2
> MPI-GM version: mpich-1.1.2..11 (-opt=-O2 -DGM_DEBUG=1
> -gm-can-register-memory)
> Fast Ethernet: mpich-1.2.0 (Intel EEpro's, switched).
> OS: linux-2.2.13
> Nodes: Dual PIII 500's w/ 1GB RAM
> 
> For the graphs themselves, myri-1 means 1 process per dual-cpu node
> whereas myri-2 means 2 processes per dual CPU node.  On the Pallas
> plots, "Internal Communication" means inside one dual CPU node.
> "External Communication" means between two dual CPU nodes.
> 
> Unfortunately, we only have 8 SCI cards on loan, so the single CPU
> benchmarks end at 8 processes and the dual CPU benchmarks end at 16
> (though we are very grateful to have any on loan at all :).
> 

Are some of you guys with your hands on different interconnect adapters,
interested in running the complete Pallas MPI benchmark (other
benchmarks as well) some time ? I think the results could be of interest
to everyone on this list.

Best regards,
-- 
  Steffen Persvold               Systems Engineer
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