Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-24 Thread Olivier SANNIER
-Message d'origine- De : users-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] De la part de Gus Correa Envoyé : vendredi 21 janvier 2011 20:37 À : Open MPI Users Objet : Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals Hi Olivier I hope this helps, Gus Correa It sure does

Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-21 Thread Gus Correa
John Hearns wrote: On 20 January 2011 16:50, Olivier SANNIER wrote: I’ve started looking at beowulf clusters, and that lead me to PBS. Am I right in assuming that PBS (PBSPro or TORQUE) could be used to do the monitoring and the load balancing I thought of? Yes, that is correct. An alternati

Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-21 Thread Olivier SANNIER
-Message d'origine- De : users-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] De la part de John Hearns Envoyé : vendredi 21 janvier 2011 11:35 À : Open MPI Users Objet : Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals On 20 January 2011 16:50, Olivier SANNIER wrote: >

Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-21 Thread Olivier SANNIER
-Message d'origine- De : users-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] De la part de Nico Mittenzwey Envoyé : jeudi 20 janvier 2011 18:58 À : Open MPI Users Objet : Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals On 01/20/2011 05:50 PM, Olivier SANNIER wrote: > Wha

Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-21 Thread John Hearns
On 20 January 2011 16:50, Olivier SANNIER wrote: >> I’ve started looking at beowulf clusters, and that lead me to PBS. Am I > right in assuming that PBS (PBSPro or TORQUE) could be used to do the > monitoring and the load balancing I thought of? Yes, that is correct. An alternative is Gridengine.

Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-21 Thread John Hearns
On 20 January 2011 16:50, Olivier SANNIER wrote: > > > > So there is no dynamic discovery of nodes available on the network. Unless, > of course, if I was to write a tool that would do it before the actual run > is started. That is in essence what a batch scheduler does. OK, to be honest it has

Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-20 Thread Nico Mittenzwey
On 01/20/2011 05:50 PM, Olivier SANNIER wrote: What is the behavior in case a node dies or becomes unreachable? Your run will be aborted. However there is checkpoint/restart support for Linux http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=ft As this is a Win32 program, I'll have to take into account tha

Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-20 Thread David Zhang
you would probably want some kind of cluster managing software like torque On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Olivier SANNIER < olivier.sann...@actuaris.com> wrote: > First of all, thank you for answers. > > I have a bit more questions, added below. > > > > What is the behavior in case a node dies

Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-20 Thread Olivier SANNIER
First of all, thank you for answers. I have a bit more questions, added below. What is the behavior in case a node dies or becomes unreachable? Your run will be aborted. However there is checkpoint/restart support for Linux http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=ft As this is a Win32 program, I'l

Re: [OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-20 Thread Nico Mittenzwey
Hi, What communication layer is used? How do I choose it? The fastest available. You can choose the network by parameters given to mpirun see http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=tuning#mca-def What is the behavior in case a node dies or becomes unreachable? Your run will be aborted. Howe

[OMPI users] Help with some fundamentals

2011-01-20 Thread Olivier SANNIER
Hello, I am currently working on a Win32 program that makes some intensive calculation, and is already written to be multithreaded. As a result, it uses all the available cores on the PC it runs on. The basic behavior is for the user to open a model, click the "start" button, then the threads a