Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions

2009-06-29 Thread Ashika Umanga Umagiliya
Thanks all for the answers, I am parallelizing tomography algorithm which takes about 5 hours using single processor. I want to gain full performance and should reduce the computational time as short as possible. I was wondering the SSh/RSH launcher could be a performance issue?(I am jus

Re: [OMPI users] Compile problems with 1.3.2

2009-06-29 Thread Eugene Loh
Jim Kusznir wrote: That sounds good; I'm glad there are a variety of tools out there. However, this now brings me back to my origional problem. I was successful at compiling openmpi after disabling vt, but if I want to use (some of) these tools, I'll need that enabled... Well, it depends...

Re: [OMPI users] Compile problems with 1.3.2

2009-06-29 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jun 29, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Jim Kusznir wrote: That sounds good; I'm glad there are a variety of tools out there. However, this now brings me back to my origional problem. I was successful at compiling openmpi after disabling vt, but if I want to use (some of) these tools, I'll need that enab

Re: [OMPI users] Compile problems with 1.3.2

2009-06-29 Thread Jim Kusznir
That sounds good; I'm glad there are a variety of tools out there. However, this now brings me back to my origional problem. I was successful at compiling openmpi after disabling vt, but if I want to use (some of) these tools, I'll need that enabled...So how do I fix the actual problem and compil

Re: [OMPI users] Compile problems with 1.3.2

2009-06-29 Thread Eugene Loh
Jim Kusznir wrote: Ok, trying now. This does bring up a question I've been meaning to ask. I need to find a way to analyze the efficiency of parallel jobs, and the only way I've known about in the past is through vampire. I do not have the software license presently (and last I looked, it was

Re: [OMPI users] Compile problems with 1.3.2

2009-06-29 Thread Jim Kusznir
Ok, trying now. This does bring up a question I've been meaning to ask. I need to find a way to analyze the efficiency of parallel jobs, and the only way I've known about in the past is through vampire. I do not have the software license presently (and last I looked, it was a commercial licensed

Re: [OMPI users] Compile problems with 1.3.2

2009-06-29 Thread Ralph Castain
Easiest solution: add -enable-contrib-no-build=vt to your configure line. This will "no-build" the Vampirtrace code section that is causing the problem. It isn't required for operations - just there as an option if you want it for debugging purposes. Ralph On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Jim Ku

[OMPI users] Compile problems with 1.3.2

2009-06-29 Thread Jim Kusznir
Hi all: I'm trying to build and install openmpi-1.3.2 for my cluster using enviornment-modules. My build failed, but on something that I have no idea how to debug. Here's the relevent output: Making all in vtlib make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/openmpi-1.3.2/ompi/contrib/vt/vt

Re: [OMPI users] CPU user time vs. system time

2009-06-29 Thread Jeff Squyres
My $0.02: there is not much useful that you can learn from system time vs. user time. The only meaningful metric is total wall clock execution time. Open MPI's progression engine is designed to poll aggressively; this approach does not work well in oversubscribed environments. You can s

Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions

2009-06-29 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jun 29, 2009, at 2:19 AM, vipin kumar wrote: Q. Since I am using TCP/Ethernet I guess that MPI uses SSH/RSH to communicate between peers. Ans. May be you are right. I don't know exactly how peers communicate in MPI environment, but I can say for sure that OpenMPI uses rsh/ssh as one of

Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions / ssh_known_hosts

2009-06-29 Thread Reuti
Hi, Am 29.06.2009 um 08:08 schrieb jody: Hi Umanga Yes, ssh (or rsh) should be configured on every machine, and it must be configured in such a way that no passwords are needed to make a connection. For example, for passwordless connection using ssh i place every node's public key into th

Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions

2009-06-29 Thread vipin kumar
Hi Ashika, Q. Since I am using TCP/Ethernet I guess that MPI uses SSH/RSH to communicate between peers. Ans. May be you are right. I don't know exactly how peers communicate in MPI environment, but I can say for sure that OpenMPI uses rsh/ssh as one of the available launchers. Q. And for that, e

Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions

2009-06-29 Thread jody
Hi Umanga Yes, ssh (or rsh) should be configured on every machine, and it must be configured in such a way that no passwords are needed to make a connection. For example, for passwordless connection using ssh i place every node's public key into the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of every node. And,

[OMPI users] Spawning processes through MPI::Intracomm::Spawn_multiple

2009-06-29 Thread vipin kumar
Hi all, I am trying to spawn dynamically processes in remote as well as local machine using MPI::Intracomm::Spawn_multiple. I am using MPI::Info object to tell where to launch processes using "host" key and "" as its value but but I am getting the error --

Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions

2009-06-29 Thread Ashika Umanga Umagiliya
Hi Vipin , Thanks alot for the reply. I went through the FAQ and it also answered some of my questions. But my problem is, since I am using TCP/Ethernet I guess that MPI uses SSH/RSH to communicate between peers. And for that, each peer should have the copy of the application right? I use 1.2

Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions

2009-06-29 Thread vipin kumar
Hi, I am not expert, I am user like you but I think I can help you, Q. After installing OpenMPI on each machine ,do i need to run a service/daemon on each machine? Ans. No, not at all, Open MPI takes care of that for you. Q. How does peers in MPI environment communicate ? Ans. Using Communicator(