Re: 50% system CPU usage when parallel running NAMD on Rocks cluster

From: ÖÜêÇêÀ (malrot13_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 10 2013 - 06:51:31 CST

Your suggestion is very helpful. We are looking for some "better scale"
switch. But here comes another question: what feature represent the
"switching-latency" or "switching-capacity" of one switch? Is it "packet
forwarding speed" or something else? Thanks again!

Neil

2013/12/9 Norman Geist <norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de>

> Maybe a little. There’s lots you can try on the software side of the
> problem, but all this will only try to circumvent the real problem or
> lessen the impact. The most comfortable and likely successful solution, is
> buying another switch. So the keywords are switching-latency and
> switching-capacity. Take the model I posted as a reference, but notice,
> that 16 cores per node is really heavy for 1Gbit/s Ethernet and you might
> want to consider spending some money into a HPC network like Infiniband or
> at least 10Gbit/s Ethernet.
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> Norman Geist.
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> Thanks for your reply! 16 cores per node are physical, HT was closed
> before NAMD was tested. I'll consider buying a new switch.
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> BTW, will it scale better if I compile a UDP version NAMD?
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> Neil Zhou
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> 2013/12/3 Norman Geist <norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de>
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> Your switch is too slow in switching. Try something like the netgear
> gs748t, not that expensive and “ok” scaling. You can temporarily improve
> the situation by trying the tcp congestion control algorithm “highspeed”.
> Set it via sysconfig on all the nodes.
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> Additionally, are these 16 cores per node physical or logical (HT). If it
> is HT, leave them out, no speed gain, only more network load.
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