<div dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><font color="black" face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">I am looking for help with MPICH2.</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">I installed mpich-3.0.4 on a Centos 6.5 PC with 24 cores.</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">When I launch with mpiexec on 17 procs all procs are running 100%.</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">When I launch on more than 17 procs the job gets slower and most processors run on less than 100%.</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">I spent a lot of time google'ing this problem but did not find any answers.</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Somebody said it may be a
memory problem but the computer has 32GB RAM and the same problem
occurred when running a very small problem.</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">On bigger computers I have run the same code on 2,048 processors with no problem at all.<br><br><br><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">"lscpu" gives the following response:<br>
</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br>Architecture: x86_64<br>CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit<br>Byte Order: Little Endian<br>CPU(s): 24<br>On-line CPU(s) list: 0-23<br>
Thread(s) per core: 2<br>Core(s) per socket: 6<br>Socket(s): 2<br>NUMA node(s): 2<br>Vendor ID: GenuineIntel<br>CPU family: 6<br>Model: 45<br>Stepping: 7<br>
CPU MHz: 1200.000<br>BogoMIPS: 4590.92<br>Virtualization: VT-x<br>L1d cache: 32K<br>L1i cache: 32K<br>L2 cache: 256K<br>L3 cache: 15360K<br>
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-5,12-17<br>NUMA node1 CPU(s): 6-11,18-23<br><br><br><br>"less /proc/cpuinfo" shows:<br><br>processor : 0<br>vendor_id : GenuineIntel<br>cpu family : 6<br>model : 45<br>
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz<br>stepping : 7<br>cpu MHz : 1200.000<br>cache size : 15360 KB<br>physical id : 0<br>siblings : 12<br>core id : 0<br>cpu cores : 6<br>
apicid : 0<br>initial apicid : 0<br>fpu : yes<br>fpu_exception : yes<br>cpuid level : 13<br>wp : yes<br><br></div></span></font></span></div>