The overlap fermion propagator is calculated on 2 + 1 flavor domain wall fermion gauge configurations on 16 3 × 32, 24 3 × 64 and 32 3 × 64 lattices. With HYP smearing and low eigenmode deflation, it is shown that the inversion of the overlap operator can be expedited by ∼ 20 times for the 16 3 × 32 lattice and ∼ 80 times for the 32 3 × 64 lattice. The overhead cost for calculating eigenmodes ranges from 4.5 to 7.9 propagators for the above lattices. Through the study of hyperfine splitting, we found that the O(m 2 a 2 ) error is small and these dynamical fermion lattices can adequately accommodate quark mass up to the charm quark. A preliminary calculation of the low energy constant ∆ mix which characterizes the discretization error of the pion made up of a pair of sea and valence quarks in this mixed action approach is carried out via the scalar correlator with periodic and anti-periodic boundary conditions. It is found to be small which shifts a 300 MeV pion mass by ∼ 10 to 19 MeV on these sets of lattices. We have studied the signal-to-noise issue of the noise source for the meson and baryon. We introduce a new algorithm with Z 3 grid source and low eigenmode substitution to study the the many-to-all meson and baryon correlators. It is found to be efficient in reducing errors for the correlators of both mesons and baryons. With 64-point Z 3 grid source and low-mode substitution, it can reduce the statistical errors of the light quark (m π ∼ 200 − 300 MeV) meson and nucleon correlators by a factor of ∼ 3 − 4 as compared to the point source. The Z 3 grid source itself can reduce the errors of the charmonium correlators by a factor of ∼ 3.