Re: [OMPI users] Multiple runs interaction

2014-08-12 Thread Ralph Castain
You can improve performance by using --bind-to socket or --bind-to numa as this will keep the process inside the same memory region. You can also help separate the jobs by using the --cpuset to tell each job which cpus it should use - we'll stay within that envelope. On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:33

Re: [OMPI users] Multiple runs interaction

2014-08-12 Thread Reuti
Am 12.08.2014 um 16:57 schrieb Antonio Rago: > Brilliant, this works! > However I’ve to say that it seems that it seems that code becomes slightly > less performing. > Is there a way to instruct mpirun on which core to use, and maybe create this > map automatically with grid engine? In the open

Re: [OMPI users] Multiple runs interaction

2014-08-12 Thread Antonio Rago
Brilliant, this works! However I’ve to say that it seems that it seems that code becomes slightly less performing. Is there a way to instruct mpirun on which core to use, and maybe create this map automatically with grid engine? Thanks in advance Antonio On 12 Aug 2014, at 14:10, Jeff Squyres

Re: [OMPI users] Multiple runs interaction

2014-08-12 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
The quick and dirty answer is that in the v1.8 series, Open MPI started binding MPI processes to cores by default. When you run 2 independent jobs on the same machine in the way in which you described, the two jobs won't have knowledge of each other, and therefore they will both starting bingin

[OMPI users] Multiple runs interaction

2014-08-12 Thread Antonio Rago
Dear mailing list I’m running into trouble in the configuration of the small cluster I’m managing. I’ve installed openmpi-1.8.1 with gcc 4.7 on a Centos 6.5 with infiniband support. Compile and installation were all ok and i can compile and actually run parallel jobs, both directly or by submitti