Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-25 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jun 24, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Joshua Bernstein wrote: Exactly, but for now, if I make sure the NODES envar is setup correctly and make sure the OpenMPI is NFS mounted, and I actually have to copy out the mca libraries (libcache doesn't seem to work), I actually end up with something running!

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-24 Thread Ralph Castain
On 6/24/08 7:13 PM, "Joshua Bernstein" wrote: > > > Ralph Castain wrote: >> Hmmmwell, the problem is as I suspected. The system doesn't see any >> allocation of nodes to your job, and so it aborts with a crummy error >> message that doesn't really tell you the problem. We are working on

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-24 Thread Joshua Bernstein
Ralph Castain wrote: Hmmmwell, the problem is as I suspected. The system doesn't see any allocation of nodes to your job, and so it aborts with a crummy error message that doesn't really tell you the problem. We are working on improving them. How are you allocating nodes to the job? Does t

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-24 Thread Ralph Castain
Hmmmwell, the problem is as I suspected. The system doesn't see any allocation of nodes to your job, and so it aborts with a crummy error message that doesn't really tell you the problem. We are working on improving them. How are you allocating nodes to the job? Does this BEOWULF_JOB_MAP conta

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-24 Thread Joshua Bernstein
Ralph, I really appreciate all of your help and guidance on this. Ralph H Castain wrote: Of more interest would be understanding why your build isn't working in bproc. Could you send me the error you are getting? I'm betting that the problem lies in determining the node allocation as th

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-24 Thread Joshua Bernstein
Jeff Squyres wrote: On Jun 23, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Joshua Bernstein wrote: Excellent. I'll let Ralph chime in with the relevant technical details. AFAIK, bproc works just fine in the v1.2 series (they use it at LANL every day). But note that we changed a *LOT* in ORTE between v1.2 and v1.3

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-23 Thread Ralph H Castain
I can guarantee bproc support isn't broken in 1.2 - we use it on several production machines every day, and it works fine. I heard of only one potential problem having to do with specifying multiple app_contexts on a cmd line, but we are still trying to confirm that it wasn't operator error. In th

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-23 Thread Joshua Bernstein
Ralph Castain wrote: Hi Joshua Again, forwarded by the friendly elf - so include me directly in any reply. I gather from Jeff that you are attempting to do something with bproc - true? If so, I will echo what Jeff said: bproc support in OMPI is being dropped with the 1.3 release due to lack o

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-23 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jun 23, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Joshua Bernstein wrote: Bummer! I would absolutely support, (along with Penguin) further contributions and development of BProc support. Note, though that BProc Scyld, and LANL BProc, have long ago forked. We believe our BProc functionality has been developed be

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-23 Thread Joshua Bernstein
Wow, Seems like I've fallen behind in replying. I'll try to be sure to make sure I answer everbody's questions about what I am trying to accomplish. Jeff Squyres wrote: On Jun 20, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Joshua Bernstein wrote: No, we don't have an easy way to show which plugins were loaded and

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-21 Thread Ralph Castain
Hi Joshua Again, forwarded by the friendly elf - so include me directly in any reply. I gather from Jeff that you are attempting to do something with bproc - true? If so, I will echo what Jeff said: bproc support in OMPI is being dropped with the 1.3 release due to lack of interest/support. Just

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-21 Thread Ralph Castain
Hmmmthis email thread was forwarded to me by a friendly elf, so be sure to include me directly in any reply. As the person who wrote a lot of the bproc support, I'll try to catch up on it over the next couple of days. One thing to correct right away, though. The --display-map function actually

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-21 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jun 20, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Joshua Bernstein wrote: No, we don't have an easy way to show which plugins were loaded and may/will be used during the run. The modules you found below in -- display-map are only a few of the plugins (all dealing with the run- time environment, and only used on

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-20 Thread Joshua Bernstein
Thanks for the response Jeff, Jeff Squyres wrote: Greetings Josh. No, we don't have an easy way to show which plugins were loaded and may/will be used during the run. The modules you found below in --display-map are only a few of the plugins (all dealing with the run-time environment, and o

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-20 Thread Jeff Squyres
Greetings Josh. No, we don't have an easy way to show which plugins were loaded and may/will be used during the run. The modules you found below in -- display-map are only a few of the plugins (all dealing with the run- time environment, and only used on the back-end nodes, so it may not b

Re: [OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-19 Thread Joshua Bernstein
Well to answer my own question, If I use the -display-map option, I get printed out a nice bit of information that includes a list of the modules in use during the run as shown below: ---SNIP--- Argv[0]: ./cpi Env[0]: OMPI_MCA_pls=proxy Env[1]:

[OMPI users] Displaying Selected MCA Modules

2008-06-19 Thread Joshua Bernstein
Hi There, I'm attempting to debug some configuration issue with the recent version of OMPI, version 1.2.6. I'm able to build all of the MCA modules, and I've figured out how to display the list of AVAILABLE modules using ompi_info, but is there a way to display the list of modules that was s