[gmx-users] Re: scaling issues in GROMACS

[David]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 21:13, Dean Johnson wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 10:32  PM, Erik Lindahl wrote:
> 
> >> How do you turn on shared memory use for dual xeons ?
> >> Sasidhar
> >
> > Under Linux, LAM-MPI should detect it automatically unless you 
> > explicitly disabled it when compiling (the RPM packages support it).
> >
> > There is nothing you have to do if it is enabled - LAM will check if 
> > two processes are on the same node and use shared memory communication 
> > if possible.
> >
> 
> Any idea of how this would be done with vanilla MPICH?
I'm pretty sure it will use it too, no idea how efficient though. I was
falsely under the impression that you were using just one processor per
(dual) node, even though you wrote CPU.
> 
> 	-Dean
> 
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David.
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