[Bioclusters] mpiblast on SGI Altix

[Mike Muratet]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Joe Landman wrote:

> 
> Hi Mike:
> 
>   Make sure you configure mpiblast to use the shared memory device (ch_shmem)
> rather than the ethernet (ch_p4), or similar devices if you are using MPICH. 
> Dont worry about assignments of partitions to nodes, that should not be an issue
> for this machine.
> 
> Joe  
>

Joe

Is there a way to check this? I didn't install the code: I suppose I could
ask the sysadmin.

thanks

Mike
 
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> 
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Mike Muratet <muratem at eng.uah.edu>
> To: mpiblast-users at sourceforge.net, bioclusters at bioinformatics.org
> Sent: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:13:28 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: [Bioclusters] mpiblast on SGI Altix
> 
> > Greetings
> > 
> > Does anyone have any experience with mpiblast on the SGI Altix and can 
> > you offer any suggestions for configuring jobs? The Altix 350 has 16-
> > CPU nodes with shared memory. The machine I'm using has 56 total CPUs. 
> > Can anyone offer any advice for how many database partitions to use, 
> > and how they get assigned to nodes/CPUs?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
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