[mvapich-discuss] Queries reagrding installation of MVAPICH2

[Dhabaleswar Panda]

The numbers looks reasonable. You should upgrade MVAPICH version to 1.2
and also MVAPICH2 version to 1.4 to get advantage of the latest features
and bug fixes.

DK

On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Pawan Sood wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I downloaded OFED-1.5 but found that it is not supported with RHEL4-U4, so I
> downloaded OFED-1.4.2 and installed it on two compute nodes choosing OFA
> implementation at setup.
>
> I have so far run the MVAPICH-1.1.0 benchmark tests and the results are
> attached.
>
> The two compute nodes are having dual-core CPUs and while running the tests
> I have specified hostfile which contains the node names , one per line, like
> below and specified -np 2 .
>
> infcn01
> infcn02
>
> Is this OK ?
>
> Also, are the benchmark results OK ?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Pawan Sood
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Dhabaleswar Panda
> <panda at cse.ohio-state.edu>wrote:
>
> > You are using very old version of OFED and MVAPICH2 on your IB cluster.
> > You can update your OFED version to the latest one (1.5). This has
> > MVAPICH2 1.4 included. You can also install MVAPICH2 independently.
> > However, I wil strongly recommend you to update to the latest OFED and
> > then install MVAPICH2. Please feel free to use the MVAPICH2 1.4 user guide
> > from the following location for building, installing and using MVAPICH2:
> >
> > http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/support/
> >
> > DK
> >
> > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Pawan Sood wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a small Linux cluster with following details:-
> > >
> > > Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
> > > Infiniband card: Mellanox Technologies MT25208 InfiniHost III Ex
> > > Inifiband switch: Cisco SFS 7008P
> > >
> > > Currently, Cisco Topspin stack is installed with the following RPMs:-
> > > topspin-ib-mpi-rhel4-3.2.0-118
> > > topspin-ib-mod-rhel4-2.6.9-42.ELsmp-3.2.0-118
> > > topspin-ib-rhel4-3.2.0-118
> > >
> > > The above RPMs provide Cisco InfiniBand host drivers, modules and MPI
> > stack.
> > > The version, as shown by 'mpirun_ssh -v' is OSU MVAPICH VERSION
> > > 0.9.5-SingleRail.
> > >
> > > I am interested in deploying the latest MVAPICH2-1.4.
> > >
> > > As I have understood, I need to first remove the Cisco Topspin stuff and
> > > install the OFED package compatible with the OS version.
> > > I have with me Cisco OFED 1.2.5 which provides MVAPICH2-0.9.8-15 and I
> > can
> > > install this OFED package.
> > > Can I also later compile & install the latest MVAPICH2-1.4 alongside
> > > MVAPICH2-0.9.8-15 ?
> > > In my situation, what is the best way to go about deploying the latest
> > > MVAPICH2-1.4 in my cluster ?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Pawan Sood
> > >
> >
> >
>