NT-MPICH Performance

We ran the benchmarks on our P4 cluster, consisting of 8 nodes, each configured as follows:

• Mainboard: Supermicro P4DME-M (BIOS v1.5, 10/01/03)
• CPU: 2x Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz, 512 KB Cache, 400 MHz System Bus, Hyper-Threading (enabled)
• RAM: 2x 512MB DDR ECC Infineon @ DDR200, 2.0/2/2/5
• HDD: 80GB IBM IC35L080 (UDMA 5)
• OS: Windows XP Professional SP1
• SCI: Dolphin D334
• Fast Ethernet:
  • Onboard Intel 82550 10/100M Ethernet @100M (Intel Pro/100 S)
  • Cisco Catalyst 3548 XL Switch
• Gigabit Ethernet:
  • Intel Pro/1000 XT Server Adapter
  • Cisco Catalyst 3508G XL Switch