[OMPI users] MPI piggyback mechanism

2007-10-30 Thread Oleg Morajko
Hi, I'm developing a causality chain tracking library and need a mechanism to attach an extra data to every MPI message, so called piggyback mechanism. As far as I know there are a few solutions to this problem from which the two fundamental ones are the following: - Dynamic datatype wrapping

[OMPI users] Too many open files Error

2007-10-30 Thread Clement Kam Man Chu
Hi, I got a "Too many open files" error while running over 1024 processes on 512 cpus. I found the same error on http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2006/11/2216.php, but I would like to know whether it is another solution instead of changing limit descriptors. The limit descript

[OMPI users] Merge blocks depending on spawn order

2007-10-30 Thread Murat Knecht
Hi, does someone know whether there is a special requirement on the order of spawning processes and the consequent merge of the intercommunicators? I have two hosts, let's name them local and remote, and a parent process on local that goes on spawning one process on each one of the two nodes. Afte

Re: [OMPI users] Error initializing openMPI

2007-10-30 Thread Jorge Parra
Hi Rainer, Thank you for your reply. Linux does not freeze. The one that freezes is OpenMPI. Sorry for my unaccurate choice of words that led to confusion. Therefore dmesg does not show anything abnormal (I attached to this email a full dmesg log, captured when openmpi freezes). When openmpi

Re: [OMPI users] Error initializing openMPI

2007-10-30 Thread Rainer Keller
Hello Jorge, On Monday 29 October 2007 18:27, Jorge Parra wrote: > When running openMPI my system freezes when initializing MPI (function > MPI_init). This happens only when I try to run the process in multiples > nodes in my cluster. Running multiple instances of the testing code > locally (i.e ./

[OMPI users] OpenMP and OpenMPI Issue

2007-10-30 Thread Neeraj Chourasia
Hi folks,    I have been seeing some nasty behaviour in MPI_Send/Recv with large dataset(8 MB), when used with OpenMP and Openmpi together with IB Interconnect. Attached is a program.       The code first calls MPI_Init_thread() followed by openmp thread creation API. The program works fine