Re: [OMPI users] Allocating some amount of memory for a process

2008-04-17 Thread Brock Palen
OpenMPI does not do this. MPI codes are regular C and Fortran programs, so if they ALLOCATE or malloc() memory, and linux/mac can give it it will. I think what you need is a batch system (Torque Plug goes here). We use a batch system that will then place processes on nodes based on memo

[OMPI users] Allocating some amount of memory for a process

2008-04-17 Thread Cally K
Hi everyone Hi, am a beginner in openmpi, does openmpi provide a function for allocating memory to a process. For example, I have a rendering process from paraview named pvserver and I would like to allocate a certain amount of memory for that process across a few nodes specified in the hostfile..