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FAQ Tuning the run-time characteristics of MPI sm communications

2. How do I specify use of sm for MPI messages?

Typically, it is unnecessary to do so; OMPI will use the best BTL available for each communication.

Nevertheless, you may use the MCA parameter btl. You should also specify the self BTL for communications between a process and itself. Further, if not all processes in your job will run on the same, single node, then you also need to specify a BTL for internode communications. For example:
shell$ mpirun --mca btl self,sm,tcp -np 16 ./a.out
 