In MPICH, OFI vs. UCX makes no difference for shared memory since that’s a different module. CH4 vs. CH3 is the only choice that matters in that case.

CH3 vs. CH4 shared memory is pretty close, but it most instances, CH3 is still a little faster. There’s some changes in progress to improve things, but they’re not ready yet.

Thanks,
Wesley

On Dec 14, 2019, at 6:51 PM, Jeff Hammond via devel <devel@mpich.org> wrote:

MPICH configure just asked me to choose ch4:ofi vs ch4:ucx vs ch3.  Does anyone have an informed opinion on which one is the faster for shared-memory execution?

My specific use case is NWChem on very large multi-socket Xeon nodes, where passive target RMA is the primary communication method, hence my primary concern is asynchronous progress and lack of serialization in RMA.  In the past, I have observed significant performance issues due to serialization of RMA accumulate operations acting on non-overlapping memory regions.

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