Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-26 Thread TERRY DONTJE
On 4/25/2012 1:00 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: On Apr 25, 2012, at 12:51 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: Sounds rather bizarre. Do you have lstopo on your machine? Might be useful to see the output of that so we can understand what it thinks the topology is like as this underpins the binding code. The

Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-25 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Apr 25, 2012, at 12:51 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: > Sounds rather bizarre. Do you have lstopo on your machine? Might be useful to > see the output of that so we can understand what it thinks the topology is > like as this underpins the binding code. > > The -nooversubscribe option is a red her

Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-25 Thread Ralph Castain
Sounds rather bizarre. Do you have lstopo on your machine? Might be useful to see the output of that so we can understand what it thinks the topology is like as this underpins the binding code. The -nooversubscribe option is a red herring here - it has nothing to do with the problem, nor will i

Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-25 Thread Kyle Boe
>I just re-read the thread. I think there's a little confusion between the terms "processor" and "MPI process" here. You said "As a pre-processing step, each processor must figure out which other processors it must communicate with by virtue of sharing neighboring grid points." Did you mean "MPI pr

Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-25 Thread Jeff Squyres
I just re-read the thread. I think there's a little confusion between the terms "processor" and "MPI process" here. You said "As a pre-processing step, each processor must figure out which other processors it must communicate with by virtue of sharing neighboring grid points." Did you mean

Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-25 Thread Kyle Boe
> Any chance you could upgrade to Open MPI 1.5.5? It has a better version of the processor affinity stuff than the 1.4 series. Did this and recompiled everything that depended on OMPI. No difference whatsoever. It still tells me, if I specify -np 2 for example, that "There are not enough slots ava

Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-25 Thread Jingcha Joba
is some run time option I'm not setting properly, etc. > > Thanks > > Kyle > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:15 PM, wrote: > From: Ralph Castain > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores >available onmulticore machines >

Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-25 Thread Jeff Squyres
Any chance you could upgrade to Open MPI 1.5.5? It has a better version of the processor affinity stuff than the 1.4 series. On Apr 25, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Kyle Boe wrote: > I tried this and got the same result. Any other thing I might be missing...? > > >Did you tell it --bind-to-core? If not

Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-25 Thread Kyle Boe
I tried this and got the same result. Any other thing I might be missing...? >Did you tell it --bind-to-core? If not, then the procs would be unbound to any particular core - so your code might well think they are "sharing" cores.

Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-24 Thread Ralph Castain
d > correctly, or there is some run time option I'm not setting properly, etc. > > Thanks > > Kyle > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:15 PM, wrote: > From: Ralph Castain > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores >available onmult

Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-24 Thread Kyle Boe
ething not configured correctly, or there is some run time option I'm not setting properly, etc. Thanks Kyle On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:15 PM, wrote: > From: Ralph Castain > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores > available onmulticore machines &g

Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-24 Thread Ralph Castain
You don't need a hostfile to run multiple procs on the localhost. What version of OMPI are you using? What was the original issue? On Apr 24, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Jingcha Joba wrote: > Try using slots in hostfile ? > > -- > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Kyle Boe wrote: >

Re: [OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-24 Thread Jingcha Joba
Try using slots in hostfile ? -- Sent from my iPhone On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Kyle Boe wrote: > I'm having a problem trying to use OpenMPI on some multicore machines I have. > The code I am running was giving me errors which suggested that MPI was > assigning multiple processes to the sam

[OMPI users] MPI doesn't recognize multiple cores available on multicore machines

2012-04-24 Thread Kyle Boe
I'm having a problem trying to use OpenMPI on some multicore machines I have. The code I am running was giving me errors which suggested that MPI was assigning multiple processes to the same core (which I do not want). So, I tried launching my job using the -nooversubscribe option, and I get this e