Re: [OMPI users] File seeking with shared filepointer issues

2011-07-06 Thread pascal . deveze
Rob, Thanks for sharing your "jumpshot" experiment for demonstrating my point of view I really appreciate the result ! Pascal De :Rob Latham A : Open MPI Users Date : 05/07/2011 17:34 Objet : Re: [OMPI users] File seeking with shared filepointer issues

Re: [OMPI users] File seeking with shared filepointer issues

2011-07-05 Thread Rob Latham
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:20:36PM +0200, pascal.dev...@bull.net wrote: > > Christian, > > Suppose you have N processes calling the first MPI_File_get_position_shared > (). > > Some of them are running faster and could execute the call to > MPI_File_seek_shared() before all the other have got th

Re: [OMPI users] File seeking with shared filepointer issues

2011-07-02 Thread Christian Anonymous
, I do not have any real interest in the filesize read this way. Christian <-Original Message-> >From: Rob Latham [r...@mcs.anl.gov] >Sent: 7/1/2011 11:13:29 PM >To: jsquy...@cisco.com >Cc: us...@open-mpi.org >Subject: Re: [OMPI users] File seeking with shared filepoi

Re: [OMPI users] File seeking with shared filepointer issues

2011-07-01 Thread Rob Latham
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 06:54:32AM -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote: > Rob -- can you comment on this, perchance? Is this a bug in ROMIO, or if > not, how is one supposed to use this interface can get consistent answers in > all MPI processes? Maybe the problem here is that shared file pointers were

Re: [OMPI users] File seeking with shared filepointer issues

2011-07-01 Thread Rob Latham
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 06:54:32AM -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote: > I'm not super-familiar with the IO portions of MPI, but I think that you > might be running afoul of the definition of "collective." "Collective," in > MPI terms, does *not* mean "synchronize." It just means that all functions > m

Re: [OMPI users] File seeking with shared filepointer issues

2011-06-29 Thread Christian Anonymous
rg >Subject: Re: [OMPI users] File seeking with shared filepointer issues > >Christian, > >Suppose you have N processes calling the first MPI_File_get_position_shared >(). > >Some of them are running faster and could execute the call to >MPI_File_seek_shared() before all the

Re: [OMPI users] File seeking with shared filepointer issues

2011-06-27 Thread pascal . deveze
ronize all processes just before the call to MPI_File_seek_shared(). Pascal users-boun...@open-mpi.org a écrit sur 25/06/2011 12:54:32 : > De : Jeff Squyres > A : Open MPI Users > Date : 25/06/2011 12:55 > Objet : Re: [OMPI users] File seeking with shared filepointer issues > Envoyé

Re: [OMPI users] File seeking with shared filepointer issues

2011-06-25 Thread Jeff Squyres
I'm not super-familiar with the IO portions of MPI, but I think that you might be running afoul of the definition of "collective." "Collective," in MPI terms, does *not* mean "synchronize." It just means that all functions must invoke it, potentially with the same (or similar) parameters. Hen

[OMPI users] File seeking with shared filepointer issues

2011-06-23 Thread Christian Anonymous
I'm having some issues with MPI_File_seek_shared. Consider the following small test C++ program #include #include #define PATH "simdata.bin" using namespace std; int ThisTask; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { MPI_Init(&argc,&argv); /* Initialize MPI */ MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD,&ThisT