Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)
Subject: Re: Help: Scalapack over Mpich in linux clusters?
Organization: Sandia National Labs
Date: 20 Jul 1998 11:53:20 -0600
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lindahl@cs.virginia.edu (Greg Lindahl) writes:
| panxin@my-dejanews.com writes:
| 
| > 	Who have experiences with Scalapck/Lapack built with the MPI standard
| > in linux pc clusters?
| 
| The Avalon folks got excellent results with their alpha cluster. The
| key was getting a well-optimized BLAS. Since you're using x86's, that
| would be the BLAS that the ASCI Red people have available for
| download.  For things such as matrix multiply, 100 mbit ethernet is
| enough communication bandwidth, but for other linear algebra problems,
| it isn't enough.

A location seems to be in order. Look at

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~ghenry/distrib/

for the BLAS libraries (and other assorted math libraries for PII and
PPro processors) as well as links to information about the ASCI RED
machine here at Sandia.

Gary