Re: 1st timer installing GM-2 and MPICH-GM
"Reese Faucette" <[email protected]> Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:21:52 -0800
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============1313319270== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_114B_01C523F2.8E4261A0" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_114B_01C523F2.8E4261A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It really depends on your cluster size and what your NFS server can = handle. It's certainly easiest to have one shared directory (for = reading) but remember that on first startup, every single node will load = the shared libgm which is around a meg. 100 nodes, no problem. 2000 = nodes, probably not the best idea. But if you have a couple hundred nodes or less, a shared dir for these = is probably the best. -reese ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Steven Ruby=20 To: [email protected]=20 Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 1:50 PM Subject: [Myrinet] 1st timer installing GM-2 and MPICH-GM Is it best practice to install these 2 software packages in one shared = storage spot for all nodes in a cluster? I haven't seen anything in the = documentation about this so I thought I would ask here. =20 Thanks sr ------=_NextPart_000_114B_01C523F2.8E4261A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:o =3D=20 "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w =3D=20 "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1 =3D=20 "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2604" name=3DGENERATOR><o:SmartTagType = name=3D"place"=20 namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagT= ype><!--[if !mso]> <STYLE>st1\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#ieooui) } </STYLE> <![endif]--> <STYLE> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; font-family:Arial; color:windowtext;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=3DEN-US vLink=3Dpurple link=3Dblue bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>It really depends on your cluster size = and what=20 your NFS server can handle. It's certainly easiest to have one = shared=20 directory (for reading) but remember that on first startup, every single = node=20 will load the shared libgm which is around a meg. 100 nodes, no=20 problem. 2000 nodes, probably not the best idea.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>But if you have a couple hundred nodes = or less, a=20 shared dir for these is probably the best.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-reese</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE=20 style=3D"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B>=20 <A [email protected] = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">Steven Ruby</A>=20 </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A [email protected]=20 href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 08, 2005 = 1:50=20 PM</DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Myrinet] 1st timer = installing=20 GM-2 and MPICH-GM</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV class=3DSection1> <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Is it best practice to = install=20 these 2 software packages in one shared storage spot for all nodes in = a=20 cluster? I haven=92t seen anything in the documentation about this so = I thought=20 I would ask here.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial">Thanks<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial">sr<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_114B_01C523F2.8E4261A0-- --===============1313319270== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Myrinet mailing list [email protected] http://email.osc.edu/mailman/listinfo/myrinet --===============1313319270==--