MPI with multiple network interfaces
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2011年7月20日 3:47
Does the MS-MPI or MPICH2 support multiple network interfaces?
For example, I have cluster nodes which have 4 ehternet NICs.
Without any modification of the normal MPI program that works well with signle ethernet NIC, does the MS-MPI or MPICH2 fully utilize these multiple NICs?
I've tested the OPENMPI on the linux with 2 ehternet NICs, and I saw that OPENMPI automatically exploits multiple NICs.
Does anyone know about this issue?
One more minor question. Does the MS-MPI work well on the windows 7? Specifically, does the MS-MPI support the infiniband on the windows 7?
Thanks for your help.
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2011年7月26日 4:30
Answer for your minor question.
I think there is no big difference between MS-MPI support in different OS. But you should plan your infrastructure because not all vendors (MELLANOX is) develop Infiniband drivers for their stacks for different OSs.
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2011年8月4日 17:16
If you just want to use many NICs to address more nodes (on all the networks) you will nned to change CCP_MPI_NETMASK.
If you want to use many NICs to have faster connection then it's something outside MSMPI. If you can combine (team) many NICs into one interface/address - then it should work. Search for "Network Adapters teaming".