[SCore-users] GM availability on SCore, when ???

[Emile CARCAMO]

Dear list members,

	When running some MPI benchmarks on Myrinet-2k, we noticed that performance
	is much-much better using 'GM' rather than PM. Problem is that 'GM' is not
	that much integrated with SCore until now (no checkpoint/restart, rcp-all
	won't work, needs a kernel rebuild on nodes, etc... etc...).

	As far as I know, PM is an older version of 'GM' (was maybe GPL licensed at
	that time ?). But GM offers the capability to run TCP/IP on top of it : you
	can do 'ifconfig myri0 up' on each node then do some NFS mounts if you wish
	pretty cool stuff ;-)

	Are there any plans to integrate GM under SCore and to have the capability
	to switch either PM or GM as kernel modules (just doing insmod/rmmod !!).

	Many thanks for your feedback on that important issue, and best regards.

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The tar-balls I've downloaded from the Myricom WEB site :
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-rw-r-----    1 emile    carcamo  12463332 Nov 18 20:09 mpich-1.2.4..8a.tar.gz
-rw-r-----    1 emile    carcamo   5814426 Nov 18 19:42 gm-1.6.3_Linux.tar.gz