[mvapich-discuss] Announcing the release of MVAPICH2 0.9.5 with SRQ, intergrated multi-rail and TotalView support

[Christian Guggenberger]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:31:47PM +0300, Pavel Shamis (Pasha) wrote:
> >>> - Shared Receive Queue (SRQ) and Adaptive RDMA support: These
> >>>   features reduce memory usage of the MPI library significantly to
> >>>   provide scalability without any degradation in performance.
> >>>
> >>is SRQ supposed to be supported with Mellanox PCI-X HCAs ? I tried to do
> >>a native build (using make.mvapich2.gen2), but the build failed (some
> >>code snippets told me, that SRQ will not work with PCI-X HCAs). I got
> >>only a complete build, if I ommited "-DSRQ" in the build script.
> >
> 
> SRQ should work on PCI-X HCAs , you just need update your firmware 
> version to latest release and install latest gen2 (OFED) release.
> 
without getting performance penalties as Sayantan described ? (all
MT23108 here are already at least at FW-3.4.0 here - my OFED test-environment even at
3.5.0)

cheers.
 - Christian
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