On Nov 13, 2019, at 10:39 AM, Douglas Dommermuth via discuss <discuss@mpich.org> wrote:

I am running Ubuntu 18.04.3 with MPICH 3.3~a2-4 and GFortran 4:7.4.0-1ubuntu2.3 and GCC 4:7.4.0-1ubuntu2.3CC on dual AMD EPYC 7742 processors with hyper threading enabled.  My codes are written in MPI and Fortran.  The dual AMD processors have 128 cores and 256 threads.   I want to optimize the runtime for 4 mpi jobs running concurrently with 64 threads each.  Some timings are provided here:

1. One mpi job with mpiexec.hydra -n 64 myprog => 57.32s 
2. One mpi job with mpiexec.hydra -bind-to numa -n 64 => 50.52s
3. Two mpi jobs with mpiexec.hydra -n 64 myprog => 99.77s
4. Two mpi jobs with mpiexec.hydra -bind-to numa -n 64 => 72.23s
5. Four mpi jobs with mpiexec.hydra -bind-to numa -n 64 => 159.2s

The option "-bind-to numa" helps, but even so,  running four mpi jobs concurrently with 64 threads each is considerably slower than running one mpi job with 64 threads.  I can almost run four mpi jobs sequentially and match the time for running four mpi jobs concurrently.   How can I improve on the result for running 4 mpi jobs concurrently?   Thanks, Doug.

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