[OMPI users] Performance/stability impact of thread support

2012-10-29 Thread Daniel Mitchell
Hi everyone, I've asked my linux distribution to repackage Open MPI with thread support (meaning configure with --enable-thread-multiple). They are willing to do this if it won't have any performance/stability hit for Open MPI users who don't need thread support (meaning everyone but me, appare

[OMPI users] [threads] How to configure Open MPI for thread support

2012-10-08 Thread Daniel Mitchell
Hi everyone, I'm writing a hybrid parallel program and it seems that unless I configure Open MPI with --enable-thread-multiple, then MPI_Init_thread always provides MPI_THREAD_SINGLE, regardless of what I pass for the required argument. Does this mean that I have to configure with --enable-thread