[Wrf-users] wrfv3 & mpi

[Gerardo Cisneros]

Jan,

You wrote:
> [...]
> Good to know! I think that more people should release this sort of data - 
> how else is a new user supposed to know whether the performance he sees is 
> good, bad, or average?

A new benchmark page will be published soon
(not by me).

> My above remark about 8 processors referred to Gigabit Ethernet only. Can 
> you confirm that GigE doesn't scale (because of latency, I suppose)?

WRF doesn't do as well over GigE as it does over
IB.  I would assume it's a combination of latency
and bandwidth limitations.

Saludos,

Gerardo
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