[Beowulf] More multiple things per node

Joachim Worringen joachim at ccrl-nece.de
Tue Jan 31 02:16:11 PST 2006


SIM DOG wrote:
> I understand about multiple NICs per node (done that). I've got SMP 
> nodes, how do I "bond" a NIC to a CPU in MPI 1.2x?

That's the job of your MPI library. MPI has no standardized interface for this, 
but a quality MPI implementation should to the correct thing automatically. If 
not, you need to call some system functions yourself (and loose portability).

  Joachim

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