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["Anglade Pierre-Matthieu" <anglade@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Two partial answers for your question:
- I have never done any benchmarking but infiniband works very well
for Abinit on "lemaitre" the super computer of the CISM
- You will find a detailed performance analysis by Torsten Hoefler
with two different kinds of interconnection here :
www.unixer.de/publications/img/hoefler-sfb05.pdf
This might be usefull for your decision.

Regards

PMA

On 8/17/07, Xiulin Ruan <ruan@purdue.edu> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We are building a computer cluster to run abinit in the parallel mode. We
> are gonna have two or four nodes, and each node will be dual-processor,
> quad-core. We wonder if the high speed InfiniBand connection is worthy to
> have. Our current jobs include calculating band structure and optical
> properties of carbon nanotubes and TiO2. Any suggestions?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Xiulin
>
>


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Pierre-Matthieu Anglade