From: Joachim Worringen Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi Subject: Re: memory requirements for mpi library Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:42:47 +0200 Organization: Chair for Operating Systems, RWTH Aachen Message-Id: <37271057.42053A1A@lfbs.rwth-aachen.de> References: <372612CA.F2E637C7@isptechinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: ukc comp.parallel.mpi:4997 Michael B. Helduser wrote: > > Does anyone happen to know how much memory the mpi library takes up? > I'm looking to run mpi on an oem board and I'm trying to determine > how much memory to reserve for it. Which mpi library (probably mpich)? Which communication device? And what kind of messages (size, send/recv mode)? In any case, an upper limit is hard to determine since it depends on a lot of parameters. You might have to adapt the according communication device to you requirements. Joachim -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ : Joachim Worringen, Lehrstuhl fuer Betriebssysteme |_|_`__ : RWTH Aachen, Kopernikusstr. 16, D-52056 Aachen | |__) : Tel. : +49-241/80-7609 | Fax : +49-241/8888-339 |__)S : e-Mail : joachim@lfbs.rwth-aachen.de