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[bgl-discuss] allreduce performance bug in coprocessor mode



> beckman@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> While running some benchmarks, we found out that MPI_Allreduce has a  
> serious performance bug in coprocessor mode on our machine (driver  
> 202).  Allreduce for virtual node mode is 100x faster (for twice the  
> number of processors).  Allreduce for co-processor mode is slow.


pete,

i think this may be an explanation for some strange POP behaviour
we've seen recently.  CO mode runs from March scaled OK, and recent
VN mode runs were almost as good; however, recent CO mode runs
do not scale at all.  There are plenty of Allreduce calls in the code.


ray

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