Re: [OMPI users] Segfault in mca_odls_default.so with > ~100 process.

2010-02-27 Thread Ralph Castain
I modified the patch (it missed a few places, some minor changes in implementation, etc) and committed it to the developer's trunk. I'll check with the release managers to see if this is something they want in the 1.4 series, or if they would rather defer it to the 1.5 series due out soon. Than

[OMPI users] Open MPI performance on Amazon Cloud

2010-02-27 Thread Hammad Siddiqi
Dear All, I am facing very wierd results of OpenMPI 1.4.1 on Amazon EC2. I have used Small Instance and and High CPU medium instance for benchmarking latency and bandwidth. The OpenMPI was configured with the default options. when the code is run in the cluster mode the latency and bandwidth of

Re: [OMPI users] Number of processes and spawn

2010-02-27 Thread Ralph Castain
Okay, thanks. It's the same problem as the other person encountered. Basically, it looks to OMPI as if you are launching > 128 independent app contexts, and our arrays were limited to 128. He has provided a patch that I'll review (couple of things I'd rather change) and then apply to our develo

[OMPI users] LAMMPS (openMPI)

2010-02-27 Thread Rodolfo Chua
Hi! Does anyone knows how to compile LAMMPS code with openMPI? Can you please post the exact detail of installing it in ubuntu 9.10 os. Thanks. Rodolfo

Re: [OMPI users] Segfault in mca_odls_default.so with > ~100 process.

2010-02-27 Thread Oliver Ford
Ralph Castain wrote: Yeah, the system won't like this. Your approach makes it look like you are launching 136 app_contexts. We currently only support up to 128 app_contexts. I don't think anyone anticipated somebody trying to use the system this way. I can expand the number to something larger

Re: [OMPI users] Number of processes and spawn

2010-02-27 Thread Federico Golfrè Andreasi
Hi, the program is executed as one application on 129 cpus defined by the hostfile. Than rank 0, inside the code, execute another program with 129 cpus, with a one-to-one relation, rank0 of the spawined process runs on the same host of rank0 of the spawning one and so on... Excuting the spawning p

Re: [OMPI users] openMPI (multiple CPUs)

2010-02-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:14:07 -0800 (PST) Rodolfo Chua wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm running a code using openMPI in a quad-core cpu. Though it is working, a > quad-core is still not enough. > Is there another way, aside from a server, of connecting 2 or 3 CPUs and > running them on parallel with M

Re: [OMPI users] Segfault in mca_odls_default.so with > ~100 process.

2010-02-27 Thread Oliver Ford
Ralph Castain wrote: Yeah, the system won't like this. Your approach makes it look like you are launching 136 app_contexts. We currently only support up to 128 app_contexts. I don't think anyone anticipated somebody trying to use the system this way. I can expand the number to something larger

Re: [OMPI users] Number of processes and spawn

2010-02-27 Thread Ralph Castain
Since another user was doing something that caused a similar problem, perhaps we are missing a key piece of info here. Are you launching one app_context across 128 nodes? Or are you launching 128 app_contexts, each on a separate node? On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Federico Golfrè Andreasi wrot

Re: [OMPI users] Segfault in mca_odls_default.so with > ~100 process.

2010-02-27 Thread Ralph Castain
Yeah, the system won't like this. Your approach makes it look like you are launching 136 app_contexts. We currently only support up to 128 app_contexts. I don't think anyone anticipated somebody trying to use the system this way. I can expand the number to something larger. Will have to see how