[mpich-discuss] MPICH2 1.0.6p1 & Windows HPC Server 2008 (bad performance)

[Seifer Lin]

Hi everyone:

I have a cluster of 4 nodes, all of them are with Windows HPC server 2008
installed.
I make all of the 4 nodes in the same workgroup. I use MPICH2 1.0.6p1 from
Argonne Lab.
And then
1. firewall of all 4 nodes are turned off
2. UAC (User Account Control) of all 4 nodes are turned off
3. I start smpd.exe (1.0.6p1 x64) in all the 4 nodes

And I run a very simple MPI program (test_mpich2.exe)

#include "mpi.h"
#include <iostream>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int cpuid, ncpu;
    MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &ncpu);
    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &cpuid);
    printf("NCPU:%d, CPUID:%d\n", ncpu, cpuid);
    fflush(stdout);
    printf("start barrier\n"); fflush(stdout);
    MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
    printf("end barrier\n"); fflush(stdout);
    MPI_Finalize();
    return 0;
}

The command is
mpiexec -hosts 2 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2
\\192.168.1.1\shared\test_mpich2.exe<file://192.168.1.1/shared/test_mpich2.exe>

And the MPI_Barrier(...) function costs 10 seconds to return !!!!!

If the same code is running on a Windows XP cluster, MPI_Barrier(...)
returns at once!


Does anyone know how to solve this problem on Windows HPC Server 2008 ?
(Windows Vista has the same problem, too)

regards,

Seifer Lin
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