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From: Roberto Pasianot (pasianot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-29 14:25:19


 Hi,

 This might be a stupid question but anyway : are you running on
 a multiprocessor ?. Otherwise what you get is exactly what should
 be expected.

 Bye. Roberto.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Ming Wu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I assigned multiple processes on one machine instead of several machines.
> In this way, I expect the communication cost will be reduced compared
> with assigning them to several machines. However, the result is weird.
> both computation cost and communication cost are increased sharply,
> especially MPI_Reduce, MPI_Sendrecv. It seems that the underlying
> implementation of lam_mpi doesn't favor multiple processes on the same
> host.
>
> Your help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
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